http://standaside.org/2007/03/news-via-paper-or-pixel/ on Marketing, Media, and Technology Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://standaside.org/2007/03/news-via-paper-or-pixel/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Kris Patel Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:49:48 +0000 http://standaside.org/2007/03/news-via-paper-or-pixel/#comment-32 Kudos Jay! I agree that the intimacy in print news has been lost to a faster-paced, update demanding medium, the internet. But what could we do to preserve that intimacy? What is it about sitting down with a newspaper that makes it more valuable than getting news via pixels? Also, why is a single source better than many? Would not many sources provide a bigger picture for the reader to draw his/her own conclusions? Kudos Jay!
I agree that the intimacy in print news has been lost to a faster-paced, update demanding medium, the internet. But what could we do to preserve that intimacy? What is it about sitting down with a newspaper that makes it more valuable than getting news via pixels? Also, why is a single source better than many? Would not many sources provide a bigger picture for the reader to draw his/her own conclusions?

]]> http://standaside.org/2007/03/news-via-paper-or-pixel/comment-page-1/#comment-33 JAY Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:22:35 +0000 http://standaside.org/2007/03/news-via-paper-or-pixel/#comment-33 Definitely a topic close to my heart, and one in which you have well informed your readers on through this piece. It's true newspapers need an audience...but it's audience is being stolen by the internet. For casual news-readers, there's little incentive to plop down money to see what's going on in the world when they can get it for free in an instant. There's something very special about holding the printed word; there's a type of intimacy with it...the ink on your fingers, the ways you can fold it: you have control. The internet is killing that intimacy which comes along with the printed news-word. There is little loyalty to one source, and heavy reliance on wire reports. With a newspaper, one picks up their favorite paper(s), but with the internet, one can go through their daily news readings and have read stories from various sources--without even recognizing where they read them. With a newspaper, they know where they read that story that caught their attention. Don't get me wrong, the internet is great for communication and research purposes. But just like an old-timer would tell you how they feel writing a letter in cursive and dropping it off in the mailbox is more intimate than writing an E-mail with a keyboard--a newspaperman will tell you how writing for a newspaper is different that writing for a screen. Nice post. -JAY MUNDY Definitely a topic close to my heart, and one in which you have well informed your readers on through this piece.
It’s true newspapers need an audience…but it’s audience is being stolen by the internet. For casual news-readers, there’s little incentive to plop down money to see what’s going on in the world when they can get it for free in an instant.
There’s something very special about holding the printed word; there’s a type of intimacy with it…the ink on your fingers, the ways you can fold it: you have control.
The internet is killing that intimacy which comes along with the printed news-word. There is little loyalty to one source, and heavy reliance on wire reports. With a newspaper, one picks up their favorite paper(s), but with the internet, one can go through their daily news readings and have read stories from various sources–without even recognizing where they read them. With a newspaper, they know where they read that story that caught their attention.
Don’t get me wrong, the internet is great for communication and research purposes. But just like an old-timer would tell you how they feel writing a letter in cursive and dropping it off in the mailbox is more intimate than writing an E-mail with a keyboard–a newspaperman will tell you how writing for a newspaper is different that writing for a screen.
Nice post.
-JAY MUNDY

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