Internet – The Death of Newspaper

Print Newspapers are Dying Faster than you Think

News in the newspapers now a days turn out too old and boring. As the internet access circulates the news really quick and soon after the incident takes place. As readers already get the news from the internet, readers find no use reading the news back in newspapers which published and circulated after many hours and days of incident.

Let’s get back to the history of newspaper…

First newspaper appeared in 59 BC in the Roman Era. In the 8^th century, China featured handwritten sheets. In 1447, Johanne Gutenberg invented printing press. In 1662, the weekly news got published.

Newspapers – Is an acronym for “North, East, West, South, Past and Present Report.” Newspapers were the handwritten sheets which was basically compromising of war news and alerts those days. If we look back, newspapers were the only source of passing the news about the incidents in the cities.

Internet – Is the abbreviated form of international network. A network of networks providing an infrastructure for the utilization of email, data based, hypertext, documents, file archives, and other computer resources.

What sells newspapers?

Journalists have an obligation to be objective and to report information that’s important to us. Regardless of this role as “watchdog”, the media must also pay attention to the economics of their private enterprise. Especially since the advent of the internet, which how more and more people get their news. Newspapers are struggling to remain in business, and have to take that into account when they consider what to print.

Why choose print newspapers over internet?

• A printed newspaper is a daily snapshot of history. It is an accurate reflection of that moment in time what we are all thinking, doing and experiencing.
• Print newspaper still provide an essential window to the world.
• Print newspapers, far more than content; it is an experience. It gets your finger dirty; it opens your mind to information. But the newspaper compels you to turn each page, see what’s there and consider stories, photo or headline that captured your attention.
• Newspapers remains an interactive part of the “new” media and must continue to evolve in this direction. We hope the print version, however, is never lost. It informs a manner no amount of pixels ever can.

As a reader, citizen, or watcher of news, what would you choose?

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