Comments on: Print Newspapers Losing Readers to the Internet

By: Office Supportline

Office Supportline — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:29:02 +0000

Althought I think electronic media are becoming quite popular, it simply is not as relaxing or as comfortable as reading from a newspaper. Maybe when items such as the Kindle become more popular and cheaper (especially cheaper for the ebooks themselves) we might see more of a change.

By: Find Customers Online

Find Customers Online — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:14:38 +0000

Not only newspapers are magazines are getting smaller and disappearing, but Yellow Pages are getting smaller too. Who grabs a Yellow Pages these days to find a business? My local Yellow Pages came the other day and I hadn’t even opened the last 2 years – ever! When I went to put the book in the guest closet, I saw the previous years. Interesting tidbit – this year’s Yellow pages was almost 200 pages SMALLER than 2 years ago. Since Goggle, Yahoo, Bing all added the local search and maps, I always do a search for local businesses. My fingers do the walking on my keyboard – not the Yellow Pages.

By: Tents

Tents — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:43:47 +0000

Certainly the Internet is the best compared to paper media. Digital information on demand and it’s interactive too. Great stuff.

By: Declare Bankruptcy

Declare Bankruptcy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:54:32 +0000

Good riddance to print media! We should all welcome the transition to digital media, as this will be much more efficient, and will present many more opportunities to people from across the globe.

By: Web Marketing

Web Marketing — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:37:14 +0000

I think print is going down, but not as fast as everyone thinks. There will always, always be people in this world who enjoy it more than reading online…but no doubt it will suffer from here on out.

By: Peter Moss

Peter Moss — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:47:14 +0000

Electronic media is the way to go, I’m not sure why these dinosaurs resist change. Paper media would have to be free to compete with electronic versions.

By: Media Training

Media Training — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:14:30 +0000

Some newspaper companies have opted to provide free online content and have more ads. Others have already been looking at subscriptions. If you ask me I think it is only fair that good content is rewarded and paid for accordingly. Its the only way to maintain the high quality of print media.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:16 +0000

The Internet has changed media forever – media and publishing companies need to keep up, or move out of the way. Blogs, wikis, social media etc. are faster, more convenient and more involving – I don’t even remember the last time I bought a paper, and I have no problem paying for online info if the quality is good.

By: Poker Bill

Poker Bill — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:25:53 +0000

Some ‘old school’ media companies are already charging for access to their online portals, or e-versions of their newspapers or magazines… I don’t see that as a problem, I’d rather pay for a subscription access to The Times or National Geographic and know I was getting great content than trawl through a ton of blogs to find the few gems in there.

However, for actual news (rather than article type journalism) blogs tend to be way faster – I’ll often see stories pop up in my rss reader 24 – 48 hours before they are on the mainstream sites, just because bloggers tend not to have to get past editors, and work all hours… I gues there’s a place for both!

By: Benjamin Robert Johnson

Benjamin Robert Johnson — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:27:10 +0000

I indubitably agree that the internet is the fastest and most convenient way to get the news. I think that newspapers will be obsolete in the near future. The great advantage of using the internet is that you can read a lot of sources all of the same time compared with the newspaper.

What I like most in the internet is that you can find myriads of information so that you can critically think and weigh down your ideas. So as to the newspaper, there is a tendency that you can be fed up with the writers’ biases on the ideas. On the internet, you can see several ideas. Lastly, there are just a lot of subjects you can find in the internet compare to papers. You can see topics about politics, economics, environment, personal reviews, culture, society and a lot more.

By: clean hard drive

clean hard drive — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:56:52 +0000

The advantages of fast delivery of news through internet threatens the printing media badly making the need for printed newspapers go down in sales.

By: Raymond J.

Raymond J. — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:53:30 +0000

Of course they are. Why would you go out and buy a paper, when you're sitting on your computer all day long. You easily have access to all the worlds papers online. It's a brave new world:-) - Ray J. - Mobilhuset: Mobil uten abonnement

By: akiro

akiro — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:47:44 +0000

I agree print media is somehow affected of the rapid grow of online reading. When you’re surfing the net you might as well read the news since you’re already using internet.

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By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:39:47 +0000

This is so true. Many people spend more time on the Internet and it is so much cheaper.

By: esl english

esl english — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:54:06 +0000

But you will have to pay to read the news online pretty soon. Unfortunately.

By: Charlotte real estate

Charlotte real estate — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:58:44 +0000

Yes, I agree print media is going down!

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Denver home mortgage — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:46:58 +0000

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Executive coaching Dubai — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:26:53 +0000

One thing I have thought for a long time that the papers are big dinasours, it takes them so long to get a story out. Sometimes I look at the internet before I leave for the paper at night and can instantly get the news . I go to the paper waiting sometimes for several hours for the truck to bring the papers from Atlanta. It takes hours to get them delivered. By then it is old news atleast to me.