Every morning my sophomore year of high school I was at Ned’s Doughnut shop by 6:00 am sharp, newspaper in hand. The sports section of the Orange County Register was the first thing I would get to and read it cover to cover.
Now I hear newspapers are a dying? (Statistics on newspaper decline since 2006)
Well somebody call Doogie Howser M.D.!
We need to revive print media and bring it back to life.
Of course there are pros and cons to both print and online media.
With print people like Jenifer Woodard say its not current enough that your reading old news and its much easier to read the stories online so you can pick and choose the ones you want.
With online media I believe a con is that people want things and they want it now so stories are being written hastily and with the intention of getting it out on the web as soon as possible.
Its like my friend Edward Derbes wrote about in the lost art of the album.
Newspapers to me are like music they are an art. They are constructed to flow and keep the reader moving from one article to the next.
Online is one article at a time in a very regimented order with no fluidity.
Though maybe I am being old fashioned because growing up I had a favorite newspaper writer his name was Kevin Ding and now he only writes online and to me it just isn’t the same.
