Who should we believe and what is the real issue?
There has been talk for awhile that the end of the newspaper is near, and they can not make enough money. Suggestions from people like Nicholas Carlson say that it would be cheaper to "send each of it's subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle instead" of printing the New york Times paper.
Should we really believe that the end the newspaper is just that close around the corner? Rupert Murdoch says that these are just "misguided cynics", in an article by the Associated Press. That are only too happy to predict end of the newspaper instead of the opposite.
The real problem though is not the disappearance of the newspaper physically, but the idea of journalism it stands for today. In a article Chronicling the Death of American Newspapers: by NPR, Leonard Downie states, "I'm not concerned about the fate of the printed newspaper. I'm concerned about the fate of newspaper newsrooms. Because those are the newsrooms that are doing the reporting that no one else is doing."
What will happen to newspapers? Who really knows, but what I do know is that people will be reading them as along as they are around.
Should we really believe that the end the newspaper is just that close around the corner? Rupert Murdoch says that these are just "misguided cynics", in an article by the Associated Press. That are only too happy to predict end of the newspaper instead of the opposite.
The real problem though is not the disappearance of the newspaper physically, but the idea of journalism it stands for today. In a article Chronicling the Death of American Newspapers: by NPR, Leonard Downie states, "I'm not concerned about the fate of the printed newspaper. I'm concerned about the fate of newspaper newsrooms. Because those are the newsrooms that are doing the reporting that no one else is doing."
What will happen to newspapers? Who really knows, but what I do know is that people will be reading them as along as they are around.
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