Paper news won't disappear despite the Internet news has invaded the domain of paper news.
According to CNN's article on March 1, 2010, "More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites." Besides, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press announced that the rates of getting information through the Internet news surpassed the rates of its counterpart, paper news. Many people know the Internet news has encroached domain of paper news and anticipate the end of paper news's era. Even the media experts cannot make the book on paper news's continuance. The dissemination of mobile phone(people can use the Internet through this) and development of the Internet promotes 'collapse of paper news'. Under the Internet's era, cannot paper news avoid its end? Well, I want to ask some questions to people who predict the end of the paper news like: Have you ever thought about the advantages of paper news?. Paper news still plays an important role in information delivery domain. Therefore, paper news won't disappear despite the Internet news has invaded the domain of paper news.
As the Internet is developed and the usage of the Internet becomes various, it eventually came to the rule of our society. It's not an exaggeration that almost people use Internet in order to get something like enjoyment through online games or convenience through Internet banking, online reservation systems. Furthermore, Internet entered the domain of information, which is taken charge of the newspaper and the rates of getting information through Internet increase steadily. In a word, the existence of paper news is in danger. In fact, the major sources of income of paper news is advertisement. Today, however, newspapers have suffered decrasing circulation figures and declining advertising benefits for some years. In particular, declining figures pose a threat on newspapers. On the advertising field, many corporations have widened their advertising expenditure against paper news and towards online. Therefore, there are concernes about online advertising replacing newspaper advertising. That means, advertisers prefer to display their products or services on Internet news because people subscribe the Internet news more than its counterpart- paper news.
Despite the trend of getting news is subscribing the Internet news, There will be no situation that paper news disappear because of the invasion of the Internet news. I can be convinced the continuance of paper news because it has inherent characteristics to fight the Internet news. From now on, I'll argue why the Internet news cannot bother paper news.
First, paper news has editorial vigor. According to Fin Galligan's essay,"The rigid structure of the newspaper allows a higher level of synthesis between news stories, the editorial commentary and other components of the print version. The space limits also indicate a necessity for the most effective and relevant reporting to meet the consumer needs at the other end. The speed, flexibility and expand ability of online news sites mean that these boundaries are not in place, and the emphasis has switched from considered, selected news, to all news, immediately and everywhere. It could be argued therefore that the newspaper version has had more editorial thought put into its content, and therefore offers better value to the reader." Fin Galligan penetrated just one of the strengths of paper news. Even space limits represent each articles is select one. One of the characteristics of the Internet, which everyone knows, is uncertainty of information. The Internet news has wrong information compared to paper news and, it is Internet news's unavoidable fate. Paper news's accurate, refined article provide subscribers excellent information.
Second, paper news higher information acquisition rate compared to the Internet news. A person named Jack Shafer said that "Even though I spent ample time clicking through the Times website and the Reader, I quickly determined that I wasn't recalling as much of the newspaper as I should be. Going electronic had punished my powers of retention. I also noticed that I was unintentionally ignoring a slew of worthy stories. Had slate's 'News Quiz" reappeared during this interval, I surely would have been a daily loser." Jack Shafer was a New York Times subscriber. He came back from the Internet news to paper news because Internet news's information acquisition rate remarkably poor rather than newspaper. Furthermore, there is a thesis that paper news higher information acquisition rather than the Internet news. Medium Matters: Newsreaders's Recall and Engagement With Online and Print Newspapers (conducted by Arthur D. Santana, Randall Livingstone, and Yoon Cho of the University of Oregon). In the thesis, the researchers deduced the results; paper news subscribers remember significantly more news stories, topics, and more main points of news stories than online news redears.
Last, paper news does not release electromagnetic waves. Internet news exists only in your computer, tablet PC, or your mobile phone. They release electromagnetic waves and long-term exposures of the waves causes health problems. Nonionizing electromagnetic wave effects in biological materials and systems(Johnson, Curtis C. University of Washington, Seattle, Wash) announced that the waves can cause dry eye and even amblyopia. Furthermore, Research done at Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs has documented that "prolonged exposure to electromagnetic radiation causes reduced melatonin secretion. Reduction of melatonin level threatens your health and can result in psychiatric disorders like depression, shortened attention span and inability to sleep. Decreased melatonin production can also increase the permeability of "blood-brain barrier", leaving you even more vulnerable to chemicals toxic effects. Blood-brain barrier is a kind of safety barrier Nature has provided you to prevent dangerous molecules from entering the brain and causing damage." We don't have to subscribe the Internet news enduring our health.
It seems to be reasonable that our society is so transilient that many old-fashioned products or systems disappear. Also, as I mentioned before, people like Internet news's speed, convenience and paper news cannot fulfill this. However, we cannot assure the collapse of paper news. Some Internet news's characteristics that can be fatal Achilles heel of paper news are actually great strength of paper news. As I mentioned before, space limits make editor post more in-depth article. Also, paper news is trying to fit themselves to chopping society- for example, many newspapers like The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune are experimenting their departmentalization of newspaper publication time. One of the great advantages of the Internet news is the news is constantly updating. The New York Times, for example, made paper news in various time so that give updating new information. There still can be some people who have feeling of doubt the paper news because it is old-fashioned information-giving system. I agree the paper news is a little-dated system. It can be a great weapon. Newspapers look the way they do thanks of centuries of evolution to ensure that the reader gets the best experience from the content.
Everything is about value in the delivery of news content, whether that value is rapid dissemination or insightful editorial commentary. Internet news has its advantages, so do paper news. Of course we live on the Internet society and it stands to reason that Internet news is more prevail compared to the paper news. However, it is absurd that the Internet news encroaches paper news and let them disappear. Paper news has great infrastructure and still have attractive characteristics. Furthermore, every historic event shared with paper news. Paper news's article is critical, on the one hand the paper news is impressive. There are many people who claim that the paper news will die. However, there are also a lot of people who love paper news. Therefore, newspaper won't disappear despite Internet news invades the domain of paper news.
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