The demise of the newspaper is evitable. Daily newspaper purchasing dropped to an all time low of 30.4 million combined from 379 of the largest newspapers existent in America. The newspaper is not what it was 60 years ago where 40 million plus citizens depended upon the major newspapers for their information source. Now more than ever people haven’t been turning to the newspapers for their news anymore.
Internet and Television have become the dominant source of the reflected newsworthy issues. The Internet and Television news have the ability to adapt constantly to what has happened within the world, keeping each news corporation on its toes. Our culture has become a fast paced nation, new things are always developing, new tragedies are always happening, new products are always appearing, and the Internet and Television make them important. Our culture simply “doesn’t have time” to sit and wait for a newspaper let alone pay for it, and if consumers aren’t paying, companies aren’t making. We want convenience and that's what we get.
That’s not the only problem the Internet has to offer. A writer of Balkinization, Neil Netanel, made a well-put point that many Internet competitors build on the content and value that newspapers create. For example Yahoo, MSM, and Google search engines all have display home pages to which provide links to headlines, newspaper stories, news agencies, and sometimes even blogs. But because of these links, the quality of news has diminished. The Internet is now so vast it enables newsreaders to see multiple sources, creating the Internet news reporters lack in credibility. Newspapers, however, have one chance to report right and do it well.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603272.html
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/05/demise-of-newspapers-economics.html
It is true, most people get their news from the television or the internet. I know I do. I don't have the time or money to buy a newspaper every week. It is a lot faster just to turn on the news on the television every night and just watch it their. The only problem with watching the news on television is that a lot of the time they are just showing one side of the story and in fact are being biased.
ReplyDeleteTimes online reports that only just over a quarter of Americas where over a third of people regularly go online for news. Only cable television remains more popular. This is shocking to me, because just years ago the internet and web came along and really took off to the point where everyone had computers. Today for someone to not have television or a computer is unheard of.
It does seem like we have come to an age where everything that is news, is online or on television. Newspapers are dying at a fast rate. My hometown newspaper has started delivering only on Sundays instead of the Wednesday, Sunday delivery. This is because so many people are going to technology for their news. Silverblatt states that, "7 percent of Americans got their news from new technologies such as cell phones, personal digital assistants and podcasts." Iphones and other cell phones with internet have also become a way of news. People can get news anywhere instead of sitting down and reading. Its true the world is a fast pace place and people just don't have the time to sit down and read so companies are coming up with new ways to make the world more efficient and so that people don't have to slow down and can go on with their lives.