Newspapers are dying these days in America. http://journalism.about.com/od/trends/a/dyingpapers.htm We get most of our information off of the internet. Not too many people read the newspaper anymore. The only thing I ever read in newspapers is baseball scores and the funnies. I think part of the reason we read more online than read newspapers is because there is usually better pictures online. Visual aids is very important when reading information. It helps us get a better idea of things when we can actually see what we are reading.
The first thing that comes to mind is the Minot flood. If you read in a newspaper that there was a flood in a town, you would feel bad. I think the feeling wouldn't last very long though and you would go right on reading other articles. However, if there is pictures of the houses that are getting destroyed, and places you know that are completely covered in water, it sets in a lot more and is more dramatic.
Cell phones these days can basically do it all. One thing that cellphones have majorly improved on is the camera quality. The quality of cameras on cellphones these days is so high, you can't tell the difference between a cellphone picture and a picture from a high definition camera. Here is a site talking about how cameras on phones have improved over the years. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20001061-264.html
The newspapers in Minot had many cellphone pictures on the front page. In the caption of the pictures it would say this photo is taken by so and so by their cell phone, and it looks like a high definition picture. This really helps newspapers out because they can get pictures from people that they might not be able to get themselves. This makes their newspaper article more enjoyable to read. I do however think that newspapers will be around for quite sometime. There are actually many people that prefer to read a newspaper. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/19/let-newspapers-die-already.html
Yea I think newspapers are dying out because they are not as interactive as the internet is. Once you read a story or read a FB post about a story you can Google it, read peoples blogs, get articles from around the country or the world on the same topic and look up videos on YouTube if necessarily. The newspaper is just the middle man in this entire information gathering. And the middle man is starting to be cut out. I don't think it will die completely because for now there are still computer illiterate grandparents and not everyone in America has access to a computer or internet on a daily basis but it is starting to phase out for sure.
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