Who Has Broadband?
Christian Science Monitor, July 15, 2009
By Dante Chinni
It may be the wealthiest, best-educated, and most-literate communities that will see their newspapers disappear first -- because those places also tend to have the highest number of people with high-speed Internet hookups. Less-connected places may allow newspapers to stick around longer, since more people in these places prefer to get their news on paper rather than wait for slow Web connections.
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