Curtis Houck

Whereas before, if you wanted to know something, you had to go to your public library.

Your family had to have the Encyclopedia Britannica.

You had to be subscribed to the local newspaper.

You had to have tuned in to the newscast at a certain period of time.

Now, thanks to YouTube, Rumble, social media, blogs, Substack,

You can consume all kinds of information while at the same time, yes, trying to find out what's true and what's not.

It requires a little bit more judgment, news judgment on the part of the consumer and where we can come in, folks that care about the notion of a news business and come in and help folks as a resource and a vehicle.

kind of provide the educational know-how and tools to kind of give you tips.

But consuming, and the last thing I'll just say is consuming a wide variety of sources still matters, I think.

Knowing different what people are saying.

I've talked to you about this.

I still subscribe to the Washington Post at home because I need to know what they're saying every day.

And I find that valuable too.

And I think the lesson in that this year from the Charlie Kirk assassination was you need to be

able to see the common humanity in each other because that has just been missing from so much of our political discourse.

I think a lot of Americans say that.

Yeah, I saw that news late last week.

A huge fine leveled on X claiming that, you know, you guys haven't done enough to really kind of limit disinformation and advertisements and deceptive programming and that kind of thing.

It really is concerning.

Yes, we can kind of roll our eyes at it and there's definitely a point of how much does this interest us.