In a small Texas Panhandle town, a few things have remained constant– cowboys, high school football, conservative voters, and the family-owned weekly newspaper, The Canadian Record. Publisher and editor Laurie Ezzell Brown strives to keep the town’s paper of record and her family’s legacy alive despite an oil bust, a global pandemic, and a growing mistrust for all media and her own liberal column.
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For the Record | Official Trailer
- No one else is going to tell the stories that we're telling.
Nobody.
There's all these things that we do on a daily basis that I don't know who's going to do that if the newspaper doesn't.
- It's just good to have a newspaper in your town, especially as small as we are.
You do a good job.
Y'all do a good job.
- There's fire everywhere.
- I think there are many issues and they're really just about making this a good place to live.
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