Here’s some good news:
Since 2004, the U.S. has lost more than 2,000 newspapers, according to the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, leaving many cities and towns without reliable, local news coverage known as “news deserts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2021/local-news-deserts-expanding/
“Since 2004, the U.S. has lost more than 2,000 newspapers”
Unfortunate, but it’s due largely to the cheapness of TV and internet news broadcasting as compared to printing and delivering paper.
Someone who worked for a TV station said local TV news was dying because of declining viewership. The half-hour local news shows around here are too long — babbling and dramatization in the weather forcasts, repetitions of news that’s covered national broadcasts, titillating but not local news. Not to mention the woke ingredients that are mixed in.