Might As Well Use It For A Fire

Newspapers are obsolete. Now a days the only people that actually read the printed news are hanging out in a heaven hotel waiting to move into their eternal resting place. The only thing that the young generations use newspapers for is to start fires in the summer time.

I remember growing up and running into the kitchen to grab my favorite parts of the newspaper. When I was real young I went straight for the comics. In high school I just went through the sports sections to see what there were saying about my high school and the teams I was on. Other than that I could care less.

As far as I cared the whole newspapre could be written by the writers of the ONION. Our generation is way to impatient to wait till 230pm everyday to see whats going on in the world. Our generation gets the privelage to see how Chad Ocho Cinco is doing every second of the day whenever we want to know.

The demise of the printed news comes down to instant knowledge can be had on the internet when ever we want or need it. Who needs a paper? If something that the President was bothering me and woke me up one night because it ended up in my dreams. I could jump on my computer at 3:23am and dig up some dirt to put me at ease.

I honest believe that deep down if anything the decline of printed news is a good thing that benefits us as citizens. As a US citizen you can always know what our politicians are doing. It is always at your fingertips. I feel that a newspaper cannot give you all the details. The internet is so huge that you can get every detail you want.

People think that the falling of the news papers is a bad thing. I see it as an very good thing. Just think if its a tough presidential race and you do not know who to vote for, you can look up any information you want to on all the candidates. Newspapers also limit what a reader can read about. You only get to read whateve the writers write about. With the internet there is so many different writers you can pick and choose what you want to read.

I may be an optimist, but I believe the depletion of newspapers and written media will strengthen our democracy. The internet and instant communication allows us to be more active and more informed citizens. Blaming the fall of written news for hurting democracy is absurd. You need to blame lazy people and not doing the duties of a citzen, but thats a whole other blog.