No longer will the working father take the newspaper in the bathroom for his daily "ritual". Nor will the teenage girl pore over tabloids and fashion magazines. They and many others will use their iPhones or other gadgets to read online.
As we enter a web-based culture, we will become a paperless society; bringing death to print journalism.
Newspapers should have accepted the dominance of the Internet long before they got into this predicament. The circulation of newspapers dwindled at the turn of the 21st Century and newspapers realized their mistake. If newspapers want to survive, they need to start charging web users for reading online publications.
Newspapers should have accepted the dominance of the Internet long before they got into this predicament. The circulation of newspapers dwindled at the turn of the 21st Century and newspapers realized their mistake. If newspapers want to survive, they need to start charging web users for reading online publications.
If the Internet takes over print newspapers, technology will continue to generate more advances with no end in sight. Our lives are ruled by what technology allows us to use.
Think how quickly we've progressed:
For watching movies we've gone from using film reels to VHS, DVD, Blu-ray discs, and downloads on the Internet. We've gone from house phones to cell phones and each year, I swear, the freaking things keep getting smaller and complicated. We no longer communicate through letters, instead we use email and instant messaging; this will also be the death of the postal service.
At what point do we stop progressing and realize it's okay to be at this stage in technology?
-Elisabeth J.
"At what point do we stop progressing and realize it's okay to be at this stage in technology?" This is a question I don't have the answer to but what I do know is that our lives are becoming more and more impersonal with each passing day. What happened to writing letters to loved ones, and that hand written signature at the end that personalized it with our love? The days of writing letters have long since gone and the fate of newspapers are quickly heading in the same direction.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that newspapers should have known. Each day technology advances and each day we move further away from the need of newspapers...in the paper form anyway. We blame the newspapers for not keeping up but I wonder what the other options might have been? Besides requiring subscribers to pay to read online newspapers have not had any other alternatives to continuing to produce paper copies.
Recently the development of electronic paper displays has given newspapers hope but prior to that options seemed to be few. Either way I think the decline in newspapers is clear. The only question now is whether or not they will be able to recover?
Racheal Johnson