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13 years ago
Monday, November 2, 2009
Learning Outcome #1-
With so much media and advertising being crammed down our throats these days, and the overwhelming abundance of the different types and styles of media, I decided to comment a little about newspapers and magazines. Growing up there were always newspapers and magazines in our house. My grandfather read the news paper everyday i think. There are elements of a newspaper and magazine that i feel are much more convenient than say the internet or television. Having a newspaper thrown on your front porch every morning from someones car window. If people don't have immediate access to a computer or television, it is often not hard to find a newspaper lying around somewhere. Walk in to any random coffee house, and you're sure to find atleast 2 or 3 newspapers lying around, and usually a few different types of newspapers as well. This allows the average person to grab up a paper and read the sports column, check the stock market, see the breaking news and headline stories, etc... With all the talk of the newspaper dying off due to the internet, i still feel that the newspaper will always have its place in modern media. I mean who is going to carry around they're laptop so that they can check the latest and greatest news stories, or sports scores and market crashes. Its really nice sometimes to just throw in a couple quarters and grab a paper and relax once in a while. In a nut shell, even though its true that paper sales have dropped significantly with the explosion in laptops and free wifi everywhere you go, i feel that the old-fasion newspaper will always be around.
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I see these random newspapers all the time outside of my house even though we don't subscribe to any of them, I suppose they are free? I don't know, but they are always laying around near my car or stuck in a bush or something, and I feel like if I ever needed to read anything that was going on locally I could walk outside and probably find a paper. This is interesting though, because I have not, in the entire year of living where I do current, ever taken a newspaper in. I feel like things that are locally worth knowing will be spread around by mouth enough for me not to have to read about it, and things not so locally are at my fingertips right here at my computer.
ReplyDeleteI do believe though, that newspapers will not die out any time soon because you're right, there is a certain lightweighted-ness about them that you can't get with any laptop. =)
Jim, i like your take on newspapers. I do sometimes read the local paper and i can not argue with what Amber said, it is alot of gossip and unimportant stuff. I guess the good thing i can say about the local paper is it gives me a heads up on anything half-way fun going on locally, as i have a toddler and find it hard to keep him stimulated with the same old routine. I didnt get internet until recently and i dont watch television news so my only resorce for news has been the Arizona Republic. Now that my world has opened up with internet i can still say that the newspaper did a better job at filtering out most of the crap and delivering me less biased news than what i read on my homepage everytime i hop online.
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