Yes, it’s owned by corporate media or a hedge fund. But the actual people who work there? They’re your neighbors. They’re the only ones sitting through township and school board meetings (though not as many as 20 years ago) watching your tax dollars and unearthing corruption. They will ring the alarm when the fucking anti-“CRT” crowd tries to infiltrate the library and middle school. They are at every one of your kid’s sporting events, whether that’s Little League or state high school championships.
They make 38k a year and work six days a week. When it’s gone, shudder to think what will go on. Because even in this digital age, the threat of “being on the front page of the paper” still keeps some black-hearted miscreants from going full evil.