It's All About the Local

Okay, here is some rare and incredibly obscure trivia. Where did Bob Woodward of Woodward & Bernstein Watergate fame get his start?

Answer: The Montgomery County Sentinel!

Trivia question #2: Where did yours truly – writer, author, screenwriter, and occasional journalist get his start?

Answer: The Montgomery County Sentinel.

This is a source of pride I never forget. My first paid writing job was as an after-high school stringer for the suburban Maryland newspaper, covering town hall meetings and writing about city parking ordinances, dog-walking laws, and other compelling local news. I think I got six dollars an hour. It was writing work! Something Jeff Bezos is intent on killing.

How very sad that that which is not getting murdered by AI is being thoughtlessly discarded by one of the richest men in the world. Here at Beyondish we cherish local journalism. There is a palpable sense of pain over the firing of 300 Washington Post writers. I have already reached out to some to see if they will come write for us.

As you read today’s brief missive on your Super Bowl weekend, please consider an impulse click & buy? Every penny I bank from this newsletter goes right back out to one of our writers. I would like to pay them more and and assign more. Writers do not get rich. We really, truly just care about telling good, important and meaningful stories.

Thanks for reading here. And for thinking about an upgrade. It’s six dollars a month or fifty dollars for the year. Your support is ever so much appreciated.

Ken Carlton, Writer