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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by irrational on Sunday October 20, 2019 @12:47AM (#21302338)
Wait, there are still towns with daily papers? I live in a town with 100,000 people (if I include the immediately surrounding towns, there are over half a million people within 5 miles of my house) and we haven't had a daily paper in... I can't even remember how long.
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by TomMarius on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:59AM (#21303201)
Im my country, towns with 10000 people have their daily newspapers, albeit short ones. 100000 seems really a lot to have no media, that's the size of my home city and we had like.. 5 competing newspapers, IIRC (today there are dozens of competing websites)
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by farrarstan on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:49AM (#21302755)
You live in a city homie
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by irrational on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:50PM (#21306588)
I don't think so. No buildings are more than 2 stories tall. For me, it's hard to think of a place as a city that has no city infrastructure.
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by chrisseaton on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:33AM (#21303514)
Some towns can get really large but never become cities for whatever reason.
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by mkl on Sunday October 20, 2019 @08:00AM (#21303594)
"over half a million people within 5 miles of my house" is more people and more densely populated than many cities though, so it seems a little silly not to call it one. There is only one city in my country with more people than that, and it's not as dense.
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by chrisseaton on Sunday October 20, 2019 @08:03AM (#21303608)
In many countries 'city' is a formal thing, and not related to the number of people living there. The smallest city in the UK has 1,797 people, and the largest town has 466,266 people, for example.
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Re:When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town by realbarack on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:43AM (#21302475)
What town is that? Is there a daily news blog or something?
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