To read the paper or not to read the paper...?

The way I gather my news is mostly through word of mouth or checking updates on my myspace or facebook page. I am rarely home during the news times, and I rarely read the newspaper because lately some of the topics do not catch my eye. The only time I really read a newspaper in depth is if it is something in it that may impact me personally such as stimulus money for college students, tution going up, all graduates of 2011 can not receive a degree. Something of that nature.



"Daily newspapers have been the public's eyes and ears, exposing corruption and scams. Isaacson notes that they are especially necessary in these times of economic turmoil to provide accountability. "

Yes I agree with the abc.com article about how newspapers have kept us in the loop, but at the sametime newspapers are beginning to have less and less meaning. I say this because if you watch the story on every news station there is, if the story is big news most likely a radio dj will mention it, and it will probably come back on the late night news. Well by the time the paper comes out to print the next morning I as the reader would have already gathered all the imformation needed and therefore will not buy a paper.



"At the root of the problem for newspapers is the increased use of the Internet. A recent Pew Research study found that for the first time ever, more people get news for free online than from a newspaper. Making matters worse, the classified ads, a primary revenue source, have gone online as well."

Yes, this is true as well how many readers such as myself are able to get the same story for free online, but I also feel like that was possibly the dumbest move any newspaper company could have made. Why charge the reader for a paper and give the option to read it free online. Any American living in this time of recession would most likely take the option of keeping their money.

In short the newspaper is slowly dying as well as many media forms and not because of sites like facebook, myspace, and blogger but because of the many dumb business moves the newspaper companies makes.