From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, hi, the news anchors all start by say.

Our greatest responsibility is to serve our communities.

But what they are forced to say next has drawn attention to local news stations

and who they are actual being asked to serve.

It's Friday, April 6th.

High-witness news at 10, a complete report with Patty Weiss and Bob Richardson.

Michael Goodrich with the weather, Ron Brooks on sports, and the I Witness News Team.

Hello there. Here's what's happening at 10. For Arizona's decision 80 is just eight hours away.

My mom was an anchor. She was the first female evening anchor in the state of Arizona.

A busy day with voters choosing a president, a congressman, a senator, and various local offices, such as Supervisor, Sessor.

Tucson is a place that she moved to when she was a child. Went off to San Diego for a couple years.

But she moved back, became an evening anchor. A couple years after that, I was born.

I've seen video of it, a news hit, a story that ran. The day I was born when they sent a camera over to visit my mom in the hospital room.

So were you essentially brought into this world on TV?

I mean, the camera wasn't there as I was being born. It was there, you know, a couple hours after.

Aaron Weiss worked in local news for 14 years.

I went off to college and wanted nothing to do with journalism. I majored in theater and after college, I went off to Microsoft and did the tech thing for a couple years.

And it was only after I'd been there for about a year that I realized I was missing that instant gratification.

So I took a week off and went back home to Tucson and hung out at the station for a week and wrote some stories and went out on a drug bust and proved I could do it.

And so they hired me as a producer.

So you started to work in the newsroom where your mother was an anchor?

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