Dave Busiek spent 43 years in Iowa radio and TV newsrooms, the last 30 years as news director at KCCI-TV in Des Moines. He writes the Substack newsletter Dave Busiek on Media, where this essay first appeared.
I recently came across a Facebook post that stopped me cold. It felt less like a feel-good story and more like a warning—a glimpse into what the future of local TV news may become if we’re not careful.
The post from August 29 shows a smiling young woman outside Mason City, Iowa, TV station KIMT’s studio in Rochester, Minnesota. Kamie Roesler writes,
“Walking out of work right now feeling accomplished tonight, not that anyone cares, but I will share anyway.”
The next sentence she shared made me, and a lot of other people care.
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