Well, we issued a report from the Commerce Committee about this a couple of years ago and basically it shows that as advertising got commoditized online, basically you have less and less revenue, less and less revenue streams for local journalism. But, but The public trusts local journalism. Why? Because you're not going to be on the air or you're not going to sell a newspaper if you're not accurate. But online you can have a lot of inaccuracies and the advertisers don't even know they're advertising next to those inaccuracies. So it creates an unleveled playing field. (05:13–05:21)
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