The media steals; others may call it media trends. A good example is the disappearence of phone booths. Other than Superman and the very destitute, there isn’t much practical use for phone booths. Not a big surprise and there isn’t anything new this week that makes this fact any more apparent than it would for stories on the disappearence of horse drawn buggies or floppy discs, yet below is the trend in thanks to press release by the Payphone Project.

Gothamist shows a map of the 4 that are left in Manhattan.

The Missoulian does an interesting twist by showing the story through a slideshow.

The Sierra Vista Herald, from Arizona, publishes an article giving a list of facts that would make wikipedia proud or at least the intern who had to google all day.

and never last in our hearts the Malaysian Star!  Of course there will always be a need for phone booths. Where else could we stack people?