In Response and Disagreement to "In Favor of Newsprint"

No one is resorting to the Internet and I'm really not sure if anyone ever has. Over the past two decades, our generation has embraced technological advancement, including the World Wide Web, like that of a three year old boy and his teddy bear. The newspaper no longer has any kind of timeliness affect because of this advancement. By the time one can find the story, write about it and print it, writers on the net are a day ahead.

Newspapers give you a story and then wave goodbye for 24 hours. Even if we are still at the point in which online stories are not as accurate, that time is rapidly approaching. When it gets here, I have confidence that online news businesses will be able to gather the appropriate facts and conduct the necessary research that you're referring to in less than 24 hours.

I would agree that the Internet provides maybe an overload of differing perspectives on social issues. This disturbing aspect of the media has been around for much longer than the Internet has, though. For years people have had the option of a different newspaper or maybe a television news network that they prefer over others. This increase in democracy did not start with the web.

If they want to survive to see tomorrow newspapers need to change. Nytimes.com is a great example of how these businesses have adapted to the online environment. A transfer to the web by all news print businesses has been initiated and now it has to be finished.