Not necessarily, I don't care if I read what happened at Tuesday night's town council meeting on Wednesday, Thursday, or even Friday. Not everything is the paper is breaking news, and much of it is interesting but you wouldn't go searching for it.

They don't take into account how a paper is used. On the bus or train, at work, can I borrow the movie listings section a minute, fold up the sports section and stick it in your back pocket on the way to the shithouse.
Not everyone sits at a desk with a computer all day. Those hand held thingys are neither comfortable nor practical to just scan while you eat your sandwich... tough on the eyes too.

Well the new generation has no trouble reading whatever they want on their phones :eek:

Whatever they want? Do they know what they want? How do their broaden their horizons on Fark? By the time they do have trouble they'll have no choice.

I never said it was a good thing, just that it is what it is.

The answer is the Kindle. Then you get news, blogs and books in a portable format with paper-like crispness.

Hey it's only like $359.

You still have to use your hands and you wouldn't want to throw it in the shithouse trashcan when you're done.

This is the strength of a good newspaper that the internet doesn't even come close to touching. When you open up a newspaper, you are flipping the pages and seeing all these different stories. You encounter stories that you would never think to look up on your own. If it was a link on the internet, you wouldn't bother to click it. But there it is, right in front of you, staring you in the face. So maybe you read the first paragraph. The story is written in a way that the first paragraph gives you the most important information first. If it grabs you, you read a little further.

You can spend 5 minutes reading the paper, and get all the basic information, or you can spend 2 hours reading the thing from cover to cover. It's harder to do that with the internet.

Plus, the local news simply isn't covered as well anywhere else on the internet. Bits and pieces, sure, but not everything.

It is clearly a revolution, and bitching and moaning about it isn't going to stop it. But it doesn't mean I have to like losing such an important aspect of what makes society work today.

Right, and laying open while you've got your lunch in both hands, your eyes wander over the paper picking out stuff.

I don't disagree with either of you. I think the biggest loss will be the investigative journalism though. For example, Watergate for one. Another would be the Fumo case (local to PA) which was broken open in large part from articles in the Inquirer.

I agree wholeheartedly with that classic.

Ok, What the hell is going on? Two people have agreed with me in the same day! Is it a full moon or are we upon the apocalypse... what?

Mercury is in retrograde... :D

Huh?

I heard on NPR just a bit ago that Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last printed version. They are going digital only.

Investigative journalism is allmost dead already. :(


ETA So is speling, aparuntly.