The history of the newspaper dates back three hundred years, newspapers online are fairly recent. Many newspapers decided to put their articles online because they were seeing a decrease in revenue from the printed newspapers. In an article from the New Yorker, I found that the rise of the Internet tends to make the newspaper look slow and unresponsive. Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty two percent of their market value in the past few years.
The question is raised, why is there a decerase in newspaper sales? I believe that the answer is that the Internet is being used much more, because it seems as though everything is on the Internet. Internet has become very natural in our society. Even school is now taught online. It seems as though people think it is easier to read news online than to go out and buy a newspaper and then read it.
It is hard to say whether or not reading a newspaper online is bad. There are some negative aspects of reading online such as, not getting all the information due to limited space, also some people would rather read in printed text than reading on a monitor. Although, for those who don't mind these negative aspects, its seems as though soon, newspapers will disapear, leaving only online news.
In a blog that I found, the person is talking about his experience with the declining of newspaper sales. He says that people just aren't reading the newspaper like they used to. This is most likely due to the fact that the Internet has taken over. He also says that he thinks that the newspapers will last another decade but not much more than that. I do indeed think that the Internet will take over all printed media, it is just technology advancing, it's the way it is.
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