> maybe you had to go through a newspaper, historically there were usually one or two that thrived per city, and usually one dominant super paper what you 're

> maybe you had to go through a newspaper, historically there were usually one or two that thrived per city, and usually one dominant super paper what you 're describing is NOT a monopoly, because the winners were local, physical separation prevented monopolization, and crucially there was more than one dominant player. There is a whole new world on the internet where for every verb there is one, single monopoly for the entire world. In the end , one can look at the money flow: How many people were employed in newspapers vs how many people are in googleplex