But we're losing it as we wake up every day and shop at the same online retailers. We go to downtowns that are riddled with vacancies. Local journalism has disappeared, so we can't even learn anything about the people that we live next to. And so I talk about the place that I grew up, Wethersfield, Connecticut, where, you know, all the stores that my family shopped at were owned by people who lived in our town. (12:26–12:32)
CLAIM
Asserts that local journalism has vanished, impacting community knowledge.
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