Reponse to "The Newspapers may find itself in the Obituary Section"

I agree that the idea of newspapers going into extinction will cause devolution. I think that by removing newspapers we will in fact lose apart of our culture. Even though "46% of Americans don't read the newspaper during the week," we can't forget about the 54% that do. Obviously, these Americans choose to read newsprint, on a daily basis, even though online news is available.

I also agree that if we remove newspapers from circulation many people will not be able to conveniently receive the news due to lack of technology. In 2003, about 55% of Americans had computers in their homes, that of course is half of the population, but we still have to be considerate of the (less than half) people that don't have a home computer. These people are still apart of our democracy and should be able to easily receive news.

In regards to the idea of online news being credible, I am skeptical of whether it can do proper "fact-checking." It is not proven whether online news is less reliable than newsprint, but it is said that 64% of journalists sometimes use web news in their reporting. And 90% say that Internet impact how they perform their jobs.

I can also count the number of times I have read the newspaper, but unlike many people in my generation I have always thought that I was missing something by not reading the newspaper. I always felt as if I was less of an American. I also felt that I contributed to the decline of newspapers and feel guilty because of that.