Online or Offline
I just saw this article online about many newspaper readers preferring online papers to reading news sources off line. The article talks alot about how online news sources maybe hurting sources like newspapers which have seen circulation drop in the last few years. While I will always like reading a newspaper more, it is hard to deny the convenience of reading the paper online and reading about news as it happens.
Our class has focused a lot on new technologies and how politics will need to adapt around changes within the new media. Do you think that print news will become irrelevant in the next few years? Will political campaigns need to shift their attention to setting up online advertising? Is the print media dead?
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I think the big danger in this trend is regarding the type of reporting. Due to the nature of reading a computer screen, people tend to like shorter articles. With the move to online newspapers what will happen to long, in-depth pieces? If people don't want to read them then newspapers will no longer produce them and we will lose out on opportunities to understand complicated issues.
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