I’m going Hanlon’s Razor on the motive with everyone else here but the fact these platforms were so important to the last election and a failure to capture that influence is the reason they are sinking now. Anyone with a plan is definitely not succeeding and I’m not buying that any of this is 4D chess.

They were frequently combined, the white pages were people in the local area and the yellow pages were businesses. I don’t actually remember seeing white pages in any phone booths or by pay phones but that may just be where I lived.