http://merandawrites.com/2007/05/06/survey-usage-varies-widely-among-americans-with-cell-phones-internet/ curious by nature, journalist by trade Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:19:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://merandawrites.com/2007/05/06/survey-usage-varies-widely-among-americans-with-cell-phones-internet/#comment-1459 Mon, 07 May 2007 21:24:29 +0000 http://merandawrites.com/2007/05/06/survey-usage-varies-widely-among-americans-with-cell-phones-internet/#comment-1459 You're an omnivore, so you have a skewed perception. Think about the thousands of U.S. children who receive free school lunches because of financial need. And many of those kids have working parents. Can they afford a monthly cell phone bill? Can they afford a home Internet connection? Then think about older Americans. Not the well-off ones who takes cruises to Alaska. No, the ones who cannot afford their prescription medicine even though they have Medicare or Medicaid. There are 280 million stories in this country, and our newspapers miss a lot of them. You’re an omnivore, so you have a skewed perception. Think about the thousands of U.S. children who receive free school lunches because of financial need. And many of those kids have working parents. Can they afford a monthly cell phone bill? Can they afford a home Internet connection? Then think about older Americans. Not the well-off ones who takes cruises to Alaska. No, the ones who cannot afford their prescription medicine even though they have Medicare or Medicaid. There are 280 million stories in this country, and our newspapers miss a lot of them.

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