Yes, newspapers are struggling to survive in the age of internet dominance. We are a culture that loves things cheap and we want it fast, which explains the success of fast food restaurants like McDonalds. The internet provides us with news that is extremely timely, almost up to the minute, and visiting web pages is cost free. We no longer have to rumble through huge sheets of fragmented articles. To keep reading, all we have to do is scroll down. Nowadays we don’t even need an unwieldy computer or a laptop; I use the net right on my cell phone.
John Stuart of the Daily Show, jokes about the internet destroying the newspapers on his show, he says “The internet is destroying newspapers; now I’m gonna go read about it on Yahoo!” It’s funny when you think about it but, that is the mindset of American society. We turn to the internet to get what we need to know, when we need to know it. We don’t have to walk to the store, or wait for it to be delivered because it’s always there 24 hours a day.
Being a democratic and capitalistic country, citizens should decide if newspapers should stick around through buying behavior. Yes, our newspapers will be missed if they ever become extinct, but what’s obsolete is obsolete. We didn’t keep VCRs around just to keep them around. We let them go when something better came along. As long as we’re discerning enough to recognize credible places to gather info on the net, the internet is A-Okay!!!
-Matrinna Woods-
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