What's the difference between desert and dessert? I have to confess that as a young junior high student, I had a big problem with that on one of my term papers and Mr. Mackler was not generous in giving me the benefit of the doubt.Over the past decade we've seen a lot of stories written about food deserts. Now we're starting to see write ups about news deserts.I bring this up because of piece by writer Clare Malone that really hit home. Technically there isn't a "news desert" here in the Chicago suburbs. However, there is no longer a decent independent source of hyper local news that will tell me what the elected officials in the eleven separate taxing bodies in my zip code are up to. I have a feeling that for many people in larger metro areas, that is also their experience.For the record: Facebook and Nextdoor are remarkably poor substitutes for a decent local newspaper. Unfortunately local TV news is more interested in the latest shooting.
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What's the difference between desert and dessert? I have to confess that as a young junior high student, I had a big problem with that on one of my term papers and Mr. Mackler was not generous in giving me the benefit of the doubt.Over the past decade we've seen a lot of stories written about food deserts. Now we're starting to see write ups about news deserts.I bring this up because of piece by writer Clare Malone that really hit home. Technically there isn't a "news desert" here in the Chicago suburbs. However, there is no longer a decent independent source of hyper local news that will tell me what the elected officials in the eleven separate taxing bodies in my zip code are up to. I have a feeling that for many people in larger metro areas, that is also their experience.For the record: Facebook and Nextdoor are remarkably poor substitutes for a decent local newspaper. Unfortunately local TV news is more interested in the latest shooting.