John Adams

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.

It's just that the business model that had supported it for so long had kind of failed in our current information environment.

And so what this is all about is saying like, look,

People are reinventing the business model.

There are successful local news organizations all over the country, for-profit, nonprofit, independents, creators, people who are committed to finding out the facts about what's going on in their community and sharing it with as broad of an audience of local folks as they can.

And they're...

This campaign, Local News Day, is really about highlighting, uplifting, celebrating and connecting the public with those sources of local news that they may not even know exist.

You know, I think I think you're really onto something there.

And I could take that a lot further, actually, because, you know, I don't know if you know this, Chuck, but I was also for a period of time the correspondent for the Rocky Mountain Brewing News.

So, you know, I did not know that.

That was not a that was not a feeder question.

You know, it's not on my resume.

I should put it on there.

But, you know, it's really that's a great metaphor, because, you know, what

Local breweries are, I'll take Montana, for example, which I know well, they're public houses.