This analysis is missing the amalgamation of these news outlets over the same time period. A better statistic would be the number remaining which have NOT been

This analysis is missing the amalgamation of these news outlets over the same time period. A better statistic would be the number remaining which have NOT been purchased and added to the collection of some larger entity. Without researching it at all, I'd hypothesize a similar trend to the consolidation of local broadcast outlets by Sinclair: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gymdbq/sinclair-broadcasting-media-consolidation-regulations https://www.vice.com/en/article/gymdbq/sinclair-broadcasting... If we treat newspapers owned by the same company as a single entity, how many independent voices actually remain? I suspect the result is very different from 2/3.