Goodbye, daily newspapers in Detroit - Page 3

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2009, 12:00 AM

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If it is news, people want to hear it as soon as they can."

Not necessarily, I don't care if I read what happened at Tuesday night's town council meeting on Wednesday, Thursday, or even Friday. Not everything is the paper is breaking news, and much of it is interesting but you wouldn't go searching for it.

They don't take into account how a paper is used. On the bus or train, at work, can I borrow the movie listings section a minute, fold up the sports section and stick it in your back pocket on the way to the shithouse.
Not everyone sits at a desk with a computer all day. Those hand held thingys are neither comfortable nor practical to just scan while you eat your sandwich... tough on the eyes too.

classicman · 03-15-2009, 12:02 AM

Well the new generation has no trouble reading whatever they want on their phones

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2009, 12:11 AM

Whatever they want? Do they know what they want? How do their broaden their horizons on Fark? By the time they do have trouble they'll have no choice.

classicman · 03-15-2009, 12:13 AM

I never said it was a good thing, just that it is what it is.

Undertoad · 03-15-2009, 12:30 AM

The answer is the Kindle. Then you get news, blogs and books in a portable format with paper-like crispness.

Hey it's only like $359.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2009, 12:37 AM

You still have to use your hands and you wouldn't want to throw it in the shithouse trashcan when you're done.

glatt · 03-16-2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Whatever they want? Do they know what they want? How do their broaden their horizons on Fark? By the time they do have trouble they'll have no choice.

This is the strength of a good newspaper that the internet doesn't even come close to touching. When you open up a newspaper, you are flipping the pages and seeing all these different stories. You encounter stories that you would never think to look up on your own. If it was a link on the internet, you wouldn't bother to click it. But there it is, right in front of you, staring you in the face. So maybe you read the first paragraph. The story is written in a way that the first paragraph gives you the most important information first. If it grabs you, you read a little further.

You can spend 5 minutes reading the paper, and get all the basic information, or you can spend 2 hours reading the thing from cover to cover. It's harder to do that with the internet.

Plus, the local news simply isn't covered as well anywhere else on the internet. Bits and pieces, sure, but not everything.

It is clearly a revolution, and bitching and moaning about it isn't going to stop it. But it doesn't mean I have to like losing such an important aspect of what makes society work today.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-16-2009, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

When you open up a newspaper, you are flipping the pages and seeing all these different stories. You encounter stories that you would never think to look up on your own. If it was a link on the internet, you wouldn't bother to click it. But there it is, right in front of you, staring you in the face.

Right, and laying open while you've got your lunch in both hands, your eyes wander over the paper picking out stuff.

classicman · 03-16-2009, 12:12 PM

I don't disagree with either of you. I think the biggest loss will be the investigative journalism though. For example, Watergate for one. Another would be the Fumo case (local to PA) which was broken open in large part from articles in the Inquirer.

sugarpop · 03-16-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

I don't disagree with either of you. I think the biggest loss will be the investigative journalism though...

I agree wholeheartedly with that classic.

classicman · 03-16-2009, 12:54 PM

Ok, What the hell is going on? Two people have agreed with me in the same day! Is it a full moon or are we upon the apocalypse... what?

sugarpop · 03-16-2009, 05:19 PM

Mercury is in retrograde...

classicman · 03-16-2009, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by sugarpop

Mercenary is in retrograde...

Huh?

dar512 · 03-16-2009, 07:23 PM

I heard on NPR just a bit ago that Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last printed version. They are going digital only.

ZenGum · 03-16-2009, 07:36 PM

Investigative journalism is allmost dead already.

ETA So is speling, aparuntly.

03-15-2009, 12:02 AM	#32
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Well the new generation has no trouble reading whatever they want on their phones __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-15-2009, 12:11 AM	#33
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Whatever they want? Do they know what they want? How do their broaden their horizons on Fark? By the time they do have trouble they'll have no choice. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-15-2009, 12:13 AM	#34
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I never said it was a good thing, just that it is what it is. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-15-2009, 12:37 AM	#36
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	You still have to use your hands and you wouldn't want to throw it in the shithouse trashcan when you're done. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-16-2009, 12:12 PM	#39
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I don't disagree with either of you. I think the biggest loss will be the investigative journalism though. For example, Watergate for one. Another would be the Fumo case (local to PA) which was broken open in large part from articles in the Inquirer. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-15-2009, 12:30 AM	#35
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The answer is the Kindle. Then you get news, blogs and books in a portable format with paper-like crispness. Hey it's only like $359.

03-16-2009, 12:54 PM	#41
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Ok, What the hell is going on? Two people have agreed with me in the same day! Is it a full moon or are we upon the apocalypse... what? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-16-2009, 05:19 PM	#42
sugarpop Professor Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: the edge of the abyss Posts: 1,947	Mercury is in retrograde...

03-16-2009, 07:23 PM	#44
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	I heard on NPR just a bit ago that Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last printed version. They are going digital only. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

03-16-2009, 07:36 PM	#45
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Investigative journalism is allmost dead already. ETA So is speling, aparuntly. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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