“Stand by for….NEWS”

(Apologies to the late Paul Harvey.)

I have owned The World Almanac and Book of Facts, an annually published book, from the days it cost about two bucks to today, when it is about twenty bucks. The 2026 issue has 1,008 pages. Recently, I randomly opened it to pages 252 and 253. The topic covered was News Consumption. Stay with me—this is information you can share at Thanksgiving Dinner or as a Jeop…