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Times-Picayune moves to a three-day-a-week publishing schedule, causing New Orleans to be the largest U.S. city without a daily paper.
Morey Safer reports. This video is the entire 12:40 segment from CBS 60 minutes that aired tonight.
h/t CBS 60 Minutes
I too watched the program and I was very impressed with the outpouring of community support for a daily paper. The lack of high-speed internet access is a major, yet understated, problem.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a new report by the Federal Communications Commission, about 19 million Americans still have no access to high-speed Internet. About 14.5 million of those without access – or about 5 percent of the total population -- live in rural areas, where Internet providers do not offer service because "there is no business case to offer broadband.”
Nearly a third of residents on tribal lands lack access to DSL or cable broadband and about 80 percent of schools and libraries receiving federal funding for Internet service say their connections “do not fully meet their needs," according to the report.
It is more than about just access, however. Only 40 percent of Americans who have access to DSL or cable Internet service actually use them. Those who don’t get high-speed internet list the following reasons: lack of affordability, a lack of digital literacy, and “a perception that the Internet is not relevant or useful to them,” according to the FCC report.
Martin A Callaghan
GCC/IBT Local 3N
Boston, MA