Do You Still Read A Paper Newspaper?
from the paper?!? dept
While it's unlikely to come as that big of a shocker to many people reading this site, many young adults don't read a paper newspaper anymore. Instead, they get their news online. Amusingly, Editor & Publisher's online editor admits that he, too, despite his job talking about newspapers (even if online) does not read a newspaper. Apparently, the original study found that, when handed a newspaper, a "young lawyer" basically had no idea what to do with it. It was too big, too clumsy and had too much info. Navigation is a pain. Plus, many hate the fact that the paper piles up around their house, whether or not they read the paper. Online solves many of these problems. Of course, it causes new problems for the newspapers, but they've mostly kept their head in the sand about this. Instead of actually dealing with the issue, they tend to do silly things like put up registration gates or subscription tollbooths. Or, some are simply pulling their content off the web altogether. Rather than helping them out, though, this just sends users elsewhere. While newspapers are still struggling with this, perhaps they need to realize that the nature of the news business is changing and that they could be better off looking at ways to help users spread the news rather than just consume the news. In the meantime, though, we've added a new poll about whether or not you still read paper newspapers?
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Survey bias
It could be that paper newspapers do have articles that aren't on online editions.
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Re: Survey bias
Could be, too, that what a lot pf people call "news" isn't really news. Lots of people say they get their news from blogs. That's like saying you get your news at the local bar after work.
As for that lawyer who couldn't figure out how to use a newspaper, let's do everyone a real service and publish his or her name. God knows I don't want to hire a lawyer who can't figure out how to navigate from page one to page two.
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I stopped and maybe you can too
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No Subject Given
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Mainstream Media
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Re: Mainstream Media
Of course there are more locally oriented newspapers than state or nationally oriented ones, due to the coresponding numbers of such entities.
I used to subscribe to four news papers and read them every day just to cover the local, state and national news sufficiently.
Since I've moved to a rural area where newspaper delivery is unreliable, I've been getting my news from the internet. For national news the coverage is excellent, for state news there is the ipl.org site where I can browse the larger papers. But for local news the internet falls short of a local small town paper.
Most of the web sites I vist for news are run by newpaper publishers. Why would that matter? I'm interested in the information not the media that disseminated it.
Best regards,
A. H.
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Yep!! Still reading the local Rag.
If you're not reading your local news (and I mean your town/community) your either fortunate enough to have a good alternative media source (would really love a local website that's up to date and useful but as with most governments, mine is run but an older generation who doesn't take to technology well ... and quite honestly I'm not sure how much more I want to pay in taxes to support the switch) or your blissfully ignorant of how important your local news is to you.
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No Subject Given
Too much info? Is that a typo? One of my primary objections to dead-tree news is that it has vastly insufficient info. If there are words, ideas, events, or names you don't know in a newspaper, does it allow you to find background information instantly? If you would like opposing/contrasting ideas from across the political spectrum or from various international viewpoints, does any single newspaper help you to obtain these? Does a newspaper allow you to respond to stories immediately?
I think not.
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