Newspapers Are Dying
February 6th, 2009 by ComputerBob
Have you ever considered the irony that newspapers all over the U.S. have recently been running front-page stories about the fact that newspapers all over the U.S. are dying?
Why do you think newspapers are dying?
You may disagree, but I think that it’s due to a combination of many factors, not limited to the following:
- 24-hour television news networks and web sites present news live, as it happens. Compared to that, newspapers publish “old news.”
- It’s faster and more convenient to get news from television and web sites than from newspapers.
- Newspapers are almost always very politically biased. But when I was younger, it was unthinkable for those biases to be expressed anywhere except on each newspaper’s editorial page. “News” stories were supposed to be reported in a factural, unbiased way. However, for at least the past decade or two, it has become common for political biases to be expressed in more and more newspaper news stories. As a result, fewer and fewer intelligent people trust newspapers and television news programs. To be fair, most television networks and web sites are biased too, but at least on the Internet, a careful news consumer can find “both sides” of most stories. That might be one reason why more and more people get their news from the Internet, and not from newspapers or television.
Like me, the Editor-In-Chief of a news and opinion web site has some strong feelings about the death of newspapers.
See if you agree with him.
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