Bulky, inconvenient newspapers need to give it up and surrender to the internet.
As a print journalist, I understand the fear that people in the business feel about newspapers going entirely online. They say their craft would be dead. And I admit, there is something about picking up the paper with a cup of coffee and whipping it out to read whenever you feel like it. But I'm also a person of the future. The truth is, it would be more convenient and not to mention environmentally friendly if newspapers would face the fact that it's time to start publishing completely online.
51 million people buy a newspaper every day, and 124 million still read one at least once a day. That, my friends, is a lot of paper. And a lot of garbage. Let's face it, most people aren't willing to pay the five extra dollars for a recycling bin or take an extra trip to a venue that has one. So it's time to take out the trash. Or the recycling in this case.
Most people today have access to a computer and the internet. As a journalist, I wouldn't mind posting exclusively online. That's where most readers get their news anyway. A lot of large newspapers could survive on advertising alone, and circulation rates have been down for a while. It's time for newspapers to wave the white flag.
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I am too nostalgic about newspapers to let them die.
How about we just make each newspaper cost $200 and offer a 3000% refund to people who recycle them?
Problem solved.
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