True Life: I Don't Read the Newspaper, Do you?

I do not find myself engaging in the daily newspaper, which gives me no empathy towards its potential death sentence. However, I was able to gain perspective of the issues of loosing print news after reading Jeffery Brennan’s post Are Newspapers Expiring?

Jeffery said that, “In order for the newspapers to die I believe online news will have to become more profitable. I also believe this is true after reading about the future of the news. A flower needs water and sunshine in order to prosper, and this is also true in the case of media outlets. If there is no profit coming in to the newspaper there will be no money for workers, which would ultimately end in with the newspaper failing.

This not only is losing people jobs, it also has viewers questioning the credibility of online news stories compared to the newspaper. An article by a professor at the University of Illinois wrote an article on a study he did on online news credibility, and it brings up the issue that people citizens are less likely to read the press if they do not believe it. The problem here is if the newspaper eventually dies out and citizens feel online news is not credible, then people are going to become less and less informed.

Even if I do not find myself picking the newspaper every morning, the people who do should continue to support the newspaper and everything it represents.