Newspapers are the place reader’s turn to for real news, well written in depth articles that for those of us who still appreciate journalism can turn too to be informed.
Now I am not trying to say that you cannot find the same quality work online, often times the online version of a newspaper will be identical to that of the print edition.
Though with the way people read on the web or should I say scan, writers have to change their style to fit the online format.
It has become more about getting eyeballs then getting loyal readers, but how can you blame them if that’s what’s going to make them money then of course the companies will call for short underdeveloped stories with bold keywords and bulleted lists.
I consider it to be the dumbing down of society and its not just journalism that is affected but examples of this intellectual freefall also come from television and movies as well. Reality series with half naked uneducated women fighting over washed up celebrities rule the market, people can’t seem to get enough dumb!
That’s why I turn to print an actual paper where I control the pages not a mouse, where I can sit and read it wherever I like. It makes me feel informed and there is a since of pride in the work that is put into a daily paper.
Is print dead?
“On an average day, roughly 51 million people still buy a newspaper, and 121 million people in all still read one,” says the 2007 Annual Report of American Journalism.
It may be on life support buts its not dead, its just going to take young willing journalists to ride out the storm and restore the world with the POWER OF PRINT
