John Adams

People want to stay informed.

People want to be in the know on things.

And we all carry around these incredibly powerful supercomputers in our pockets that are radically connected to the entire world.

And so we can find out what's happening in Israel or

I ran within minutes of it happening.

But in terms of, you know, what happened to, you know, why is that street closed three blocks from my house?

You may wait days to find the answer to that.

And you might have to find it out on social media or you might have to find it out by asking your neighbors.

And, you know, in a lot of communities, they kind of left their attention, which was, you

on their doorstep, right?

A paper delivered to their door.

You wake up, you drink the coffee, you unroll the paper, you read the headlines, you swear at the opinion page.

Then you check the local sports box scores for the basketball game that happened the night before, what have you.

And then you end your day watching the evening newscasts and knowing what's going on.

Sure, you might tune in for the national news, but then you stick around to find out about what's going on with the weather, what's going on

in your community.

And, you know, a lot of those traditional sources of information didn't adapt very efficiently to the information environment that we're currently in.

But there's a lot of us who understood, you know, saw that reality kind of taking shape and kind of hit the ground trying to figure out what the next phase of this was.

The need for local news has never gone away.

The appetite for local news has never dissipated.