Everything's better online right?...wrong!
Online newspapers, while having good intentions, are no replacement for printed news, end of story. In this blog one person shares their experience with getting the news strictly online, and all she missed out on with it. Online newspapers are not exact replicas of the printed news, so you will always miss out on something if you forgo the printed newspaper for its online counterpart. Seventy plus percent of people spend at least two hours per day staring at a computer screen. Why add more time to that than necessary?
Do you enjoy your eyesight? I know I do.
If you are reading the entire newspaper, a decently heavy amount of reading material, on a computer screen, you might as well send out invitations for migraines to come. Alot of people who get their news online end up printing out multiple pages because staring at the computer screen is hard on their eyes; right, because constantly buying ink cartridges and paper is cheaper than the dollar it would cost for the entire paper. Isn't it nice that you can pick a newspaper up and take it wherever you want? Good luck reading the news online in a doctor's office without free wi-fi.
You think advertisements are annoying while surfing the web? Try encountering them whilst attempting to comprehend a story with actual content, and advertisements online are ALL in color. I dare you to attempt to ignore that. Try reading about the breaking news, just when it is getting to the gut of it, a multicolored banner appears, blocking your view, telling you where to "meet hot local singles" or "win a free PS3". At least in printed news the advertisements can't jump in front of your text.
"But online newspapers are a better idea, they can report news as it happens".
technically yes, but with the ability to post a story quickly comes a responsibility that is often overlooked while in a rush, one called checking your sources. Sure, you're getting the news quickly, practically as soon as it happens, but is it really news? is that really how it happened? Are printed newspapers less good because they are "old"?
In a story in the The New York Times it is stated that the decline of printed news is rapidly escalating. People are too cheap to pay one dollar for a newspaper, but will spend tons of money printing it out to go read it with their five-dollar cup latte at Starbucks? Apparently the number of printed newspapers and the intelligence of the general population are directly correlated.
Not everything is better online.
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