From Headlines to DEADlines

I believe that the newspaper will eventually no longer exist due to advances in technology. Many newspaper consumers are "going green" in order to save the environment. "In 1989 the newspaper recycling rate as 35 percent. Today, over 73 percent of all old newspapers in the United States are recovered and recycled (Newspaper Association of America)." We have to ask ourselves if the newspaper is worth hurting our environment. The nice thing about having the newspaper available online is that it is free and more convenient to the reader.
The article I read, called Thinking Space, compared the newspaper to the web. The Thinking Space blog stresses that the rise of the web media causes the newspaper crisis. The public uses computers all the time so checking the news is not a hassle for someone who is constantly at their computer. The online news is free, which is a huge plus because of the economy we are in, and also faster with updates. The web is a cheaper and easier way for those who want to advertise themselves and/or get their company noticed.
Overall the newspaper crisis is not all that bad. Right now the economy is doing so poorly which means we, the people, are doing poorly and if there is a way to save money then the consumer will do whatever costs them less. "This newspaper crisis is not about the greediness of human nature, it is not about the poor execution of the business, and it is not about a normal economic cycle. The newspaper crisis is about the unchangeable fact of the value decrease of the asset that the newspapers can produce (Thinking Space)." What this part of the article was trying to get across to the reader is that the newspaper crisis is not a result of money issues, and it is not a result of bad business, but it is because saving the environment is more important than having a hard copy of the newspaper every morning.

Samantha<3

Link to the article: http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2009/05/newspaper-crisis.html