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Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Streamed and Screened, an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises.

I'm Terry Lipschitz, managing editor of the National Newsroom at Lee and co-host of the program with Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter.

And Bruce, we have to take care of a little business here first.

And there are many reasons, one of which is the business model, and one of which is ownership by chains and sometimes by private equity The Buffalo News was owned by Warren Buffett for a long time, for most of the time that I was there.

And now it's owned by a chain, Lee Enterprises.

And Lee Enterprises has not, in my view, been a good owner.

I mean, they've cut the staff to smithereens and they talk a great game.

And that is true in Minneapolis as well at the Star Tribune.

And it's true at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

And none of those newspapers are owned by chains.

They're owned in a bunch of different ways, sometimes by a rich person who's local, sometimes by a nonprofit, that the paper itself is still profit-oriented, but the ownership is not.

I saw him play a lot in high school and I saw him quite a bit, you know, just on TV, watching games on TV.

I don't I don't think I covered a lot of his games because we had other beat writers at that time covering, including one of your our our Hawkeye beat writer for our Lee Enterprises, Ethan Petrick.

You guys probably all know Ethan a little bit.

So he he might have been covering AJ a little bit more than I did.

[upbeat music] Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Streamed and Screened, an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises.

I'm Terry Lipshets, managing editor of the National Museum at Lee, and co-host of the program with Bruce Miller, longtime entertainment reporter.

And, uh, yeah, you are, uh, back to interviewing the celebs.

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Lee Enterprises, my parent company, did not renew its AP contract.

So the AP got rid of its voters who work at Lee Enterprise Newspapers.

Gotcha.

There is too much friction, too much anger, and often too little understanding of the people and places closest to us.

I serve as chairman of the board of Lee Enterprises, the company that owns this publication.

More importantly, though, I'm a husband, father, and grandfather who cares deeply about the kind of communities we are leaving to the next generation.

None of us can fix it alone.

Thank you for reading, for caring about your community, and for helping local journalism continue to serve it.

I look forward to continuing the conversation right here in this local news publication.

Hoffman is chair of Lee Enterprises, the parents' company of this local news organization.

You are listening to a reading of articles and features from the Viewpoints section of the Buffalo News on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.

Kathy, do you remember what was happening in your life on September 11th, 2001?

Yeah, so I was still working for the Lee Enterprises papers.

I remember the day vividly.

I was getting ready for work, had the TV on, and I was just kind of, you know, idly watching it while I was getting ready for work.

He's the chairman of this publicly traded company.

So if you said Lee Enterprises across the top, of course.

Nobody would be talking about this.

Well, who's Lee? Who was Lee?

I didn't understand at the time when I was blogging at 4 and 20 Blackbird starting in 2010, I didn't know that Pete Talbot was the son of a CIA man.

But it's very easy to find that his dad, John Talbot, retired from the CIA in 1957 and became very influential with Lee Enterprises, which owns a bunch of Montana newspapers.

Huh, interesting.

And so I've really looked at narrative control and not just the influence of newspapers, but now that newspapers are waning, A whole fractured, fragmented landscape of siloed information control that someone with the ego my size because of some of the narratives I think I've uncovered and this burning sort of butt hurt, like raising my hand in front of the class wanting to get picked on.