Beware what sprouts in a news desert

Beware what sprouts in a news desert

The death of local news can be deceptively quiet, writes Teri Carter. (Getty Images)Our weekly newspaper — The Anderson News — is published on Thursdays.  On Friday, June 20, I stopped at the Lawrenceburg Kroger to grab a copy of the paper, but the stack of issues was dated June 12, the week prior. I recalled being at our Walmart a few weeks earlier, on a Monday, and that The Anderson News from the previous week had still not been delivered.  Wh…