The demand for the everyday newspaper has suffered a majorly decline and is drastically affecting the economy. With the many options we have available to us that distribute immediate news updates, it makes it hard to still rely on the daily newspaper for the most current events. People are relying more on news broadcasts and the internet for daily information. Visiting search engines like Google and YouTube you can find almost any news story you want simply by typing in a few keywords about the subject. The majority of city and town newspapers also offer the paper to be viewed on their websites, causing readers to become more Internet-friendly.
In a New York Times article the Audit Bureau of Circulations stated that, “based on reports filed by the individual papers, show that circulation at The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Star-Ledger of Newark, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Orange County Register and The Detroit News fell 10 percent or more.” That is a major percent for these larger newspapers to see in a one year span. This decline is affects jobs when newspaper companies are forced to let employees go for a period of time. You can see more about declining paper reports in the link I provided below.
But with less demand on the paper and more demand on Internet sources, some people are complaining that the newspaper quality has been going down also. Peter Appert, a newspaper analysis at Goldman Sachs said, “it just seems impossible to me that you’re cutting costs dramatically without having some impact on the editorial quality of your product.” It’s important to hear news stories from multiple sources so the newspaper will always be a good source to read it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/business/media/28circ.html?ref=business
Monday, April 13, 2009
Newspaper Decline
The demand for the everyday newspaper has suffered a majorly decline and is drastically affecting the economy. With the many options we have available to us that distribute immediate news updates, it makes it hard to still rely on the daily newspaper for the most current events. People are relying more on news broadcasts and the internet for daily information. Visiting search engines like Google and YouTube you can find almost any news story you want simply by typing in a few keywords about the subject. The majority of city and town newspapers also offer the paper to be viewed on their websites, causing readers to become more Internet-friendly.
In a New York Times article the Audit Bureau of Circulations stated that, “based on reports filed by the individual papers, show that circulation at The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Star-Ledger of Newark, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Orange County Register and The Detroit News fell 10 percent or more.” That is a major percent for these larger newspapers to see in a one year span. This decline is affects jobs when newspaper companies are forced to let employees go for a period of time. You can see more about declining paper reports in the link I provided below.
But with less demand on the paper and more demand on Internet sources, some people are complaining that the newspaper quality has been going down also. Peter Appert, a newspaper analysis at Goldman Sachs said, “it just seems impossible to me that you’re cutting costs dramatically without having some impact on the editorial quality of your product.” It’s important to hear news stories from multiple sources so the newspaper will always be a good source to read it.
In a New York Times article the Audit Bureau of Circulations stated that, “based on reports filed by the individual papers, show that circulation at The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Star-Ledger of Newark, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Orange County Register and The Detroit News fell 10 percent or more.” That is a major percent for these larger newspapers to see in a one year span. This decline is affects jobs when newspaper companies are forced to let employees go for a period of time. You can see more about declining paper reports in the link I provided below.
But with less demand on the paper and more demand on Internet sources, some people are complaining that the newspaper quality has been going down also. Peter Appert, a newspaper analysis at Goldman Sachs said, “it just seems impossible to me that you’re cutting costs dramatically without having some impact on the editorial quality of your product.” It’s important to hear news stories from multiple sources so the newspaper will always be a good source to read it.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Generation's Genre's - News is news
The newspaper's demise is a sad tale. I wish that the traditional past time of information translation would be part of life for years to come, but that most likely isn't the case. Older generations will keep the paper pushin' for some time; but new, impatient, information hungry citizens of 2009 want the simpler, quickest access to news in life. Older citizens can still find a hard copy paper, newspapers are not instinct, just far more prevelant. Jack Shafer shares in a Slate article "The only group that holds a consistently high opinion of newspapers is newspaper people. They're the ones who do the bragging about how newspapers enrich democracy by uncovering pollution, malfeasance in office, abuses of power, and unsafe consumer goods," this view holds consistent of how I see newspapers; real, informative and reliably safe, as well as intellectual, consistent and honorable. Newspapers are hisotry, they won't ever die.
The save on paper and resources to produce a hard copy is a major reason I appreciate the switch to technology based distribution. The price: FREE, isn't so shabby either. But the nostalgic newspaper reader will want the tangible evidence of what is, has and will be going on in life.
I don't trust technology, I think that if something did go wrong with the distribution of news the people and cyberspace troubles you would have to find then bother to fix the glitch would be exhausting and frustrating. I think that newspapers are more reliable but not practical compared to the internet in this day in age. Access and possibility are key here.
Not all newspapers will die. The New York Times will thrive in hard copy world forever, the respected "upscale" paper has won Pulitzers and is so inluential in news and history. It is believed the best writers write for the NYT and audience and admiration will stick with the best.
Citizenship will not die with newspaper's circulation dwindling. People are still taking part in the spreading and understanding of knowledge through news, they just don't have to wait around for it. Time and energy is saved and now is news. Citizenship is stronger then ever in CMC, computer-media communication, people are online, together, at once. Practicing a new retrival of assets to life and inner peace in news of the day, knowing all. People will be able to relate and share within the websites and resources online are tagented to so many fresh areas of life and options, the future is thick with possibiltiy, but newspapers will be missed.
The save on paper and resources to produce a hard copy is a major reason I appreciate the switch to technology based distribution. The price: FREE, isn't so shabby either. But the nostalgic newspaper reader will want the tangible evidence of what is, has and will be going on in life.
I don't trust technology, I think that if something did go wrong with the distribution of news the people and cyberspace troubles you would have to find then bother to fix the glitch would be exhausting and frustrating. I think that newspapers are more reliable but not practical compared to the internet in this day in age. Access and possibility are key here.
Not all newspapers will die. The New York Times will thrive in hard copy world forever, the respected "upscale" paper has won Pulitzers and is so inluential in news and history. It is believed the best writers write for the NYT and audience and admiration will stick with the best.
Citizenship will not die with newspaper's circulation dwindling. People are still taking part in the spreading and understanding of knowledge through news, they just don't have to wait around for it. Time and energy is saved and now is news. Citizenship is stronger then ever in CMC, computer-media communication, people are online, together, at once. Practicing a new retrival of assets to life and inner peace in news of the day, knowing all. People will be able to relate and share within the websites and resources online are tagented to so many fresh areas of life and options, the future is thick with possibiltiy, but newspapers will be missed.
Krysta Hill said...
The demise of newspapers in today’s society doesn’t seem like such a big deal. I don’t remember the last time I went out to buy myself a newspaper. Everyone I know reads online in some way, shape or form. On a computer, iPhone, iTouch, Blackberry, Kindle, there are other ways to spread the news other than through newspaper.
Why wait until tomorrow to read what you can read right now? Especially when the story in tomorrow's paper will be outdated by the time it hits your doorstep. With technology today, our generation would rather search the internet, instead of flip through pages in a newspaper, for new stories whether it’s on democracy and political ideals or for entertainment purposes.
Besides being able to search the internet, which is faster and more efficient anyways, having less newspapers to publish can save a lot of paper. No matter how many recycling bins we have in this country there are still plenty of newspapers that get disposed of improperly. With the green movement becoming so popular, saving the earth and paper, this should be a good thing for the environment.
I think people are so scared of change they cant see how this can actually help our society.
The demise of newspapers in today’s society doesn’t seem like such a big deal. I don’t remember the last time I went out to buy myself a newspaper. Everyone I know reads online in some way, shape or form. On a computer, iPhone, iTouch, Blackberry, Kindle, there are other ways to spread the news other than through newspaper.
Why wait until tomorrow to read what you can read right now? Especially when the story in tomorrow's paper will be outdated by the time it hits your doorstep. With technology today, our generation would rather search the internet, instead of flip through pages in a newspaper, for new stories whether it’s on democracy and political ideals or for entertainment purposes.
Besides being able to search the internet, which is faster and more efficient anyways, having less newspapers to publish can save a lot of paper. No matter how many recycling bins we have in this country there are still plenty of newspapers that get disposed of improperly. With the green movement becoming so popular, saving the earth and paper, this should be a good thing for the environment.
I think people are so scared of change they cant see how this can actually help our society.
Goodbye, Newspapers
In past months, the internet has been in an absolute buzz about the fact that newspapers are on their way to extinction because people would rather obtain their news and information online. (Irony, anyone?) The arguments for the preservation of newspapers tend to vary in their angles: Some folks believe that newspapers are too important culturally to be tossed aside in favor of the internet, and some believe that newspapers are downright crucial for the preservation of our civic culture and democracy.
In this Slate article, Jack Shafer writes against the notion that newspapers are the cornerstone of a working democratic system. Shafer explains that people will obtain their news with or without newspapers, writing "I can imagine citizens acquiring sufficient information to vote or poke their legislators with pitchforks even if all the newspapers in the country fell into a bottomless recycling bin tomorrow."
Honestly, I was completely unfamiliar with the sheer adoration with which people viewed newspapers. Newspapers are really simply a mode of delivery for the news; the newspaper itself is of little significance. But people have this intense sentimentality for newspapers - like when Denver's Rocky Mountain News announced its last issue after 150 years in print and ordinary citizens made heartfelt tribute videos. (Like this one.) (And this candlelit vigil.) (And this one, because he's on the toilet. Get it? That's where you read a newspaper!)
Why the tears and heartache over the loss of some paper? (Newspapers are also the least eco-friendly method of delivering news. Just sayin', mainstream media.) Some believe that without newspapers the news simply won't survive, which is the equivalent of saying that modern communication exists because we all never stopped drawing stick figures on caves. (To be fair to Salon, they make a decent argument that amateur and niche blogs will create an atmosphere where people will be so inundated with information that it will be hard to decipher what is substantial news.) (But on the other hand, aren't those the people who already opt for US Weekly rather than The New York Times?)
In closing, perhaps the internet does allow for too many crackpot and false news stories that are written as truth, which in turn leads citizens to believe in things like American concentration camps are being built by FEMA to imprison political dissenters. And of course we need organized mainstream media to act as an authority that maintains order and debunks these silly citizen-perpetuated pseudo news stories, right?
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
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Newspapers are definitely on their death beds.Our generation is so technical that we would rather look the news up on the internet, instead of buying a paper and reading it. Coinciding with the recent post, the internet is so useful we don't have to wait for the news to be wrote in the paper to look up current events and news, we get it fast on the net.
The internet is the new newspaper, it's cheaper, convenient, and just as reliable as the paper. In fact the internet has more advantages than the newspaper, because you have limits on the news that you can read in the paper. The paper prints what they want you to see. However on the internet, you have no boundaries on the news you can read.