In Response to: You say deminse, I say old news

It's true!!! Newspapers are now considered old news.  Is that good or bad?  Well, I'm in agreement with you that the death of the newspaper has disadvantages, such as loosing many jobs.  Yet, like you have mentioned, there are many advantages of not using the newspaper anymore.

World Wide Web.  What an invention!  Now newspapers can be online, allowing for more updating and more availablitliy at a faster pace.  Like you have mentioned, people now can find out the second a breaking news story hits instead of 24 hours or even longer after.  This fast pace can sometimes be subject to lack of fact-checking; however, the web is designed for the ability to update and correct as time passes.  

An example of how it benefits to use online papers is with the problems in Haiti right now.  Pick up any news paper on January 12, 2010.  It might say something about what's going on in your city, politics, deaths, or it might say Haiti is expected to be hit by an earthquake.  Might be? People want to know what is happening, so they turn on the tv or they go online.  Online newspapers allow news to be current. 

Can the newspaper prevail?  In economist.com, as you've mentioned, is this logic that the newspaper just has to change it's ways.  It's true, instead of fighting the change, the newspaper industry needs to embrace it because either way it is happening.  Since papers like The New York Times are available online, the industry needs to find a creative way to still make money from doing this. 

Yes, the newspaper will always be remember and it will never fully disappear, but its time to realize that as technology progresses, so shall we.  The image of sitting at breakfast with an ink filled paper and cup of coffee can still exist, yet instead of the paper a lap top will be sitting there.  Is there something so wrong about that?

Kylee Flister