Week 8 objectives: Confirmation

 1. What is my thesis?

  - Paper news won't disappear despite the Internet news has invaded the domain of paper news.

 2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis?

  - I'll mainly use advantages of paper news compared to the Internet news. Some statistics and expert's opinion  will be used.  

 3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?

  - My arguments are based on evidence that shows the strength of the paper news. Also, there can have some  logic or emotion in my arguments.


Confirmation

 Despite of the trend of getting news is subscribing the Internet news, There will be no situation that paper news disappear because of 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. 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 the expandability 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. 

 Second, paper news has depth and breadth. In a 2011 paper entitled "Newspapers Offer More News Than Do Major Online Sites" published in Newspaper Research Journal, Scott Maier wrote about print versus online newspapers in the actual quality of news delivered via the two media. He analysed major online news sources against print newspapers, and concluded that the print versions(and by association those identical electronic versions of the print) actually had more news reported in them than the online sites. 

 Third. paper news has tenacity of information. In a study conducted in 2011 by three doctoral candidates from the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, it was observed that recall of news stories was higher in those who read from a newspaper than an online site, based mostly around the formatting and ease of access to a whole story in the print version. The whole report can be found here, and is an interesting read: Medium Matters : Newsreader's Recall and Engagement with Online and Print Newspapers. A second conclusion from this research was that since an online news story is quickly archived and stored in a fixed location, there is less subconscious impetus to store the information in memory as a simple online search query will return the article for reference very quickly.