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Kristin Lyerly: “We're not getting the information that we need on the…”

Featuring: Kristin Lyerly, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 8

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Flipping the Script: Pat Kreitlow Takes the Hot Seat

Published | Video Starts at 23:10

You are one of a handful of voices keeping local rural media alive in Wisconsin. Newspapers, radio, tv, everything's being bought up by conglomerates, which means that they're pushing out these messages that they want, but We're not getting the information that we need on the ground, the stuff that really matters, like the local sports and what's happening in our city councils. How do we change this local media atmosphere so people get the information that they need in order to live their lives? Yeah, and it's a very tough nut to crack. (23:10–23:20)

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Asserts that local media is failing to provide essential local information such as sports and city council news.

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