When you turn on the cable news shows, the person of the hour isn't some distant legislator or some slick-suited bureaucrat. Local officials now get their time in the spotlight.
打開地方新聞電視，鏡頭前的主角不再是遙遠的立法院、或西裝革履的中央官員。地方政治人物多了曝光管道，左鄰右舍也有機會上電視。