Blogs vs Newspapers
Every morning I get up early, have a bowl of cereal, crack open a fresh, ice-cold Rockstar and read my morning…BLOGS?
I haven’t read the local fish wrap in years. For one, it is extremely biased in local news toward liberals and it gets tiring reading that all of the time. My primary reason however is that blogs provide better and more detailed reporting than my paper does.
It seems I’m not alone…newspaper subscriptions are dying. How long until Newspapers go the way of the Beta max and the Yugo?
ROCKSTAR??? Ew, Singley! I guess it’s like coffee, I guess…
I have to agree, Matt, although I do subscribe to a few news feeds just to get the current events. I agree with you, though; much of the blogging out there is superior to the newspaper reporting. And that certainly goes for the Oregonian.
The comparison of newspapers to video players that were poorly marketed, and to low price/low quality cars that never were popular is flawed. From the mid 19th to the late 20th century, newspapers have been the popular media. Comparison to town criers would have been more apt.
But your point is well taken, I get my news mostly from electronic versions of news papers or blogs.
Every morning I get up early, have a bowl of cereal, make a fresh cup of coffee and read the morning … COMICS!
Been the same way since, oh, about 1978 or so when the Denver Post convinced me to subscribe in college. Been an adict of the comics ever since!
Much to my wife’s chagrin, I read most of my news online on the New York Times website. They send me an email digest of their top 30 to 40 headlines and editorials. It’s quicker for me to get the news I want to read this way.
But the physical newspaper has a visceral, social aspect that the web can’t hope to attain. On Sundays in particular, we share sections, show things off to each other, scan the ads for what we need or might like.
Guess that makes me a Luddite.
Dave
I’m just amazed when people haven’t heard of Drudge! Hello??? That’s my HOMEPAGE!!