Subject: Re: News deserts and losing democracy
Penny Abernathy, a visiting journalism professor at Northwestern University who studies the local news industry, has found that 2,500 newspapers ' more than a quarter in the U.S. ' have gone out of business since 2005.

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In a related amazing discovery, although there were 2.2 Million pay phones in the USA in 2000, that number has been reduced to under 100,000 today.