Newspaper, good or bad?

All over the nation newspapers are losing funding and going under, leading to more and more news being posted solely online. This demise can partly be blamed on the newspapers themselves. Though the rise of the internet is also a likely candidate for their failure. The internet allows the stories to be posted almost instantly, whereas a newspaper must wait until it is printed and run. Online news, in my opinion is very easy to access and helpful, but it greatly lacks the substance of newspaper stories. I think because there are less newspapers we are less informed about topics around us and less involved in society and therefore less democratic.

The numbers of newspapers lost is absolutely staggering and it is hurting Americans who only get their news online. They are missing out. Much information about the loss of newspapers and the related job loss can be found on this blog. Without these newspapers much of what people are getting is blog writing and therefore opinionated which is not what news is necessarily about. Also, many of the stories online that are from reputable news sites are much shorter and less substantive than they would be in their print form. They are denying us part of what journalism was created for, and that's information.

In this article the author discusses how the newspapers affect their local readership's opinions and helps to bring them news. The print newspapers address topics more often and in many different forms. The issue can be addressed in an article or editorial or any other form. This provides people with many more views and opinions. Without these things the people have less in the way of knowledge provided to them and this limits their own knowledge.