VIDEO: Young Highlights Importance of Local News During Commerce Hearing

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, discussed the importance of local news to American communities during a committee hearing on Tuesday. The hearing focused on the Federal Communications Commission’s current broadcast media ownership rules in light of today’s evolving media landscape.

“If members of my community don’t have access to their local news, it can be an impediment to useful information and the decisions they make, the actions they take. Our sense of community can be undermined,” said Young. “But, I actually think what’s most at stake is our democracy. If I don’t know what’s happening in the local planning meeting, if I don’t know what’s happening in the school board, if I don’t where monies are being invested locally as it relates to road projects, it’s hard for me to cast inform votes at the ballot box, it’s hard for me to meaningfully engage in democracy at the local level.”

Full video of Young’s remarks can be viewed here. More information on the hearing can be found here.