and now our remaining witness who is appearing remotely is dan gainer, vice-president, free speech america and business research center. thank you for being with us mr. gainer. >> thank you. chair person klobuchar ranking member leeann members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity today to speak about one of my favorite topics. local journalism. i worked as an editor on three different local daily newspapers as well as editor of two weekly and editor and associate publisher at a third. the best and obviously the most fun jobshi i've had were local news if i could snap my fingers and fix local news i would. i would hazard a a guess that every memberle of the committee would do the same. but the competition preservation act of 2021 toes not fix that problem. it's a well intentioned attempt to level the playing field between big tech and local journalism but that's not what it does. it seems petitions premised on a misinterpretation of hertz is that now local journalism was killed by big techs it was not how do i know i was there working local journalism as news all the outing in br