Comment by chgs
Depends what “internet is down” means, but are you sure radio will carry news?
Even if the studio can get the signal out to a transmitter, how will news get to the studio? How will you be able to trust it? You might have someone saying something in a CB radio if you have one, but can you rely on that random person?
Having recently lived through a natural disaster, the radio carried local news, which was all I cared about at the time. (Transmission overall was harmed by storm damage, but the local station had direct access to at least a few of their towers.)
Whether I can rely on the information I get is a good point, but it seems like we as a society struggle with that just as much with the internet as without. Forced decentralization through broken connections may have played as much of a positive role in preserving the integrity of information as it was a negative.