Do you think that newspapers have had their day,that they are a waste of natural resources and the cause of much pollution? We can get all our news and information electronically these days, nearly as soon as it happens. with the amount of tripe being printed these days I reckon their demise is long overdue.
claymore Sat 30/08/08 11:38
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Well I haven't bought or read a newspaper for 5 years or so.
Even the local newspaper is available on line, so I don't have the free papers either.
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Believe it or not there are still people in the world who don't have access to the internet.
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That is true, daffy, but most of the Western world has 24/7news via radio or tv
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Today I had to sit in my car & wait for 1hr. I dropped off my son at golf and decided to stay as there was a bad accident on the road.
Anyway I sat there reading my car manual, wishing I'd bought a newspaper. People were emerging with dogs from the woods and one very old man returned with his dog & sat in the car with a flask, poured himself a drink, put on his birdsong tape (very loud) ate a sandwich and read a newspaper for 45mins.
Online news was no good to him or me this morning.
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I travel on trains to and from work, and almost everyone has a newspaper, bought or free, I also drive Underground trains, and at the terminals, there are literally hundreds left on the seats.
I reckon, as long as people commute to work, there'll be a demand for them.
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While travelling on the London underground recently, I sat there while a young bloke hanging onto the rail seemed perturbed by either being on the tube or the mass of people but he suddenly noticed a newspaper left on the floor and quickly scooped it up and started to read, dissipating his anxiety. So for him, the paper became a virtual lifesaver.
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You can buy eReaders and download your daily paper. It is much smaller than any broadsheet or tabloid, and so much easier to read on public transport.
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But in direct answer to your question. I suppose it is about convenience and accessability. We can receive frontline news by most new mobile phones these days. Where I work, within a school. The refurbished library has drastically reduced it's books and increased the amount of computers. But to most it's probably easier and more portable to use a newspaper but I personally think the waste of natural resources needs to be addressed as far as disposable items such as newspapers.
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The only newspapers I ever buy these days (and then only rarely) are local ones. I know they're full of stories about school fetes, letters complaining about inconsiderate parking, and major scoops about Mr Wilberforce's prize-winning pumpkins, but at least they don't try to brainwash you into a certain thought process. I get my "proper" news from television and radio.
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I like doing (or trying to do) the crossword; it is really not the same trying to do it online. The only thing I do think is silly is having so many supplements at the weekends.
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Ethel, if newspapers have had their day then there won't be any to look at on your eReader; they'll have gone bust. You'll have to rely instead on TV news - and I believe their viewing figures are also in slow decline - or news websites. The latter are not necessarily reliable. If you read the Telegraph, you know a long-respected name is responsible for giving you the news (this doesn't mean it will always be accurate, but there will be someone to carry the can if it isn't). If you see a story on the Drudge Report, who knows whether it's any more accurate than anything in the News of the World or those American newspapers that carry reports of Elvis being found on the moon?
Newspapers have other functions, of course: carrying opinion pieces, gossip, entertainment listings and so on. These are more easily replicated online. But the retailing of actual news comes down to who you'd trust to give it to you straight - or of course whether you could care less. It seems quite a few younger Americans thought the Georgia that was invaded by Russia was the state in the southern USA; clearly, they're not paying too much attention to public affairs anyway.
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The question refers to newspapers and waste of natural resources.
A digital newspaper does not waste paper and there are plenty of respectable tv and radio current affairs programmes where respected journalists make their views known.
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Love my newspaper when i finish with it my cat does her business on it everyone happy!!!!
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Television will never replace the role of newspapers. Have you ever tried to swat a fly with a television set?
Seriously though, newspapers do support recycling, and are doing their bit with a recycling rate of 80.3%, and counting. I do my bit for the environment by not buying a paper. I find them free every day on the buses and trains I commute to work in!
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No, no - with the price of electricity shooting up, it'll soon be cheaper to read a paper than have computers on all day!
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I realise that, Ethel; but pretty much the only online newspapers are those set up on the back of real printed newspapers. If people stop buying these papers, to save time, money or natural resources, the whole lot goes bust, online versions included. Few papers have found an online business model that works. I could foresee bbc.co.uk being the only reliable news source left, but even that will for the foreseeable future rely on BBC TV providing the money.
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if it gets to the point that the costs of production outweigh any sales etc, then they'll die. Not difficult.
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