“People love to talk about the death of newspapers, as if it’s a foregone conclusion. I think that’s ridiculous,” Arianna Huffington says, “Traditional media just need to realize that the online world isn’t the enemy. In fact, it’s the thing that will save them, if they fully embrace it.”
This was a quote by Arianna Huffington who works for the Huffington post. The article talks about how the internet is starting to take over the newspaper. Consumers want their information up-to date, newspapers can not produce that fast. With a click of the button you can search for any piece of information you could possibly want. Let’s say you watching the news, you see something interesting but did not catch the full story. Just log in online and you can read a more in depth version from the News website. Newspaper companies are slowly starting to allow access to the daily papers online. You can now search through articles and even the classifieds. Sooner than you know the traditional newspapers will be extinct. It is a new generation geared towards technology and our traditional ways of life, such as the newspaper, need to keep up with the change in times.
References
Alterman, E. (2008, March 31). OUT OF PRINT. New Yorker, 84(7), 48-59. Retrieved December 6, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.
1 comment:
Yes, it is hard not to notice how newspapers are slowly pushed to the back corner by on-line updates on the same top stories. And I have to agree that newspapers should embrace the reality before taking a chance to go under its wheals. And some of the newspapers are already doing it quite successfully.
Let’s take, for example, The New York Times. The on-line version of this newspaper offers many features that people prompt to look for in a Cyberspace when the news brakes – up to the minute update on a story, forum discussion and so on. In this case the newspaper only wins. People trust its reputation and the professionalism of its writers therefore the nytimes.com would be the first place to look.
Of course, there will be always people for whom reading the paper-version of the newspaper – in a wicker chair with a cup of coffee on Sunday – will always remain to be something nice and sacred. And that is wonderful too.
Michael
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