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It’s the morning after the Knicks made history, ending a 53‑year drought, and you get the idea to frame a newspaper showcasing their win. Welp, others had the same idea. Printed copies of the team’s NBA championship headline are now nearly impossible to find. Newspapers themselves are already becoming historic artifacts, with circulation down by 20 million since the 1940s, according to Pew Research data.

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While there is no official separating line between Gen Z and millennials, leading think tank Pew Research Center has defined 1996 as the last birth year for the millennial generation based on their demographic work looking at technological, economic and social shifts throughout the last century. For the first time in NBA history, all four conference finalists — based on minutes-weighted average age, which accounts for playing time — will fit into the Gen Z category.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Some of this lack of trust can be laid at the feet of the Trump administration, which waged a relentless four-year campaign to undermine public confidence in media reports critical of the president. But some of the blame falls on the media, both on the left and right. Each year since 1975, Americans’ trust in news sources has eroded further, and a new Pew Research Center poll reveals that Americans’ confidence in the news media is well below that in education, medicine, science and the military.

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