The Death of Newspapers?

I think that newspapers are dying out basically at the same rate as the generation that has gotten used to reading them. The younger generation that is more in touch with the internet likes blogs and news websites and other 2.0 forms of news, while the older generation still likes newspapers and such. I don't think that newspapers will ever die out while that generation is still supporting news in that format. Once they're gone I think it's perfectly plausible that all news will be on the internet more or less.

It's getting harder for newspapers because of the ease of accessability with news on the internet, and also that it's free. With newspapers, you have to pay the subscription, news online is for free. Also it's just much easier to get news off the internet. Everybody's on the internet already anyways, it's just easier to click on CBC News or whatever your outlet might be than to go out to your mailbox and get a newspaper.

I don't think we should care that newspapers are dying out. This is just the newest way to get news. I don't think old days people were angry when they went from cave drawings to newspapers, I'm sure they loved the new easy way to know what was happening around them. It's just the same with online news. It's newer, faster, cheaper, everything.

I've already listed most of the advantages to online news, I guess one advantage of newspapers is that they're a little bit easier to read because it's on paper and some people's eyes hurt when they read off of a computer screen. Another advantage to online news is that you don't have any of the garbage that newspapers make. Online news is green and it doesn't cost any trees to make.

I won't personally miss newspapers because I don't particularily like them in the first but I'm sure there are some people that will miss the old fashioned way of doing things.

By B.L.