Newspaper stay! Please.

• I've been working on a paper for one of my classes about the topic of the newspaper dying. This sums up a lot of what I have been saying and also goes into some details and examples. Let me know what you think please.. 

                                   Newspaper stay!

The internet has been a usable resource since the 1950s. Over the years, it has grew and transformed into something we used every single day. Now there are so many sources within the web that we can use. There was MySpace and now Facebook. There’s Twitter and YouTube, and Yahoo and Google. All types of media to entertain, inform, and persuade you. Anything you want to do at the tip of your fingers. But the internet has made people forget about the little things that have been around for years.  Like the newspapers.

 I’m going to be talking to you about why you need to start reading a newspaper more and stop relying on the internet for everything little thing you need. The newspaper has been a reliable resource since 59 B.C when the first “newspaper” was published in Rome. Since then millions of newspaper have been published around the world; containing breaking stories, traditional news, stories about music and new technology, even comics and puzzles. Why should we stop reading newsprints and let something so important to many and to history die? We shouldn’t! You are letting the internet take over your lives and let a part of history disappear forever.

Pittsburgh had their first newspaper published in 1786 by The Gazette, which is now known to many locals as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This local newspaper has been informing and entertaining people for many years and it still manages to stay in business. But how long can this newspaper stay strong? I’ve worked with many of the writers and other staff at the Post-Gazette. They are worried and know that the newspaper will not be around for very much longer due to the lack of readers and the increase of internet use.

Many people rely on the newspaper for work. There are a lot of people that work for newspaper companies like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or the New York Times. When the newspaper is gone, where are those people going to be? Most of them jobless. Some of them can find other jobs, writing for other companies. But the people that help print the newspapers and the people that deliver the newspaper will be gone. They will not be needed no more at all if there are no more paper copies.

 And what about the future journalists? What about all those journalism majors in school right now, studying to be writers for a newspaper? They did all that hard work and dreaming for nothing. They will have to start all over or find somewhere else that they can use their skills at. But they won’t be able to complete what they worked for and wanted to do for so long.

The internet is growing with new technology every day. You can get your local and world news on a website now. “It’s easier to get to,” some people will say. Well saying that, means you’re just lazy. It is not that hard to obtain a newspaper. You can go to a supermarket or gas stations, even some schools and get the daily newspaper. Most people have internet now-a-days but you will never experience being able to hold so much news in your hands if the newspaper dies. Many people actually like the experience and feeling of being able to hold so much news and information in their hands.

Therefore, the newspaper is very important to our history and future history. People look to the newspaper for information about everything from entertainment to daily news and sources for jobs. If we let the internet take over the newspapers, what are we going to let it takeover next? No more books in the libraries?

Too many young people..

Reality sucks! I was excited about that last video I found about newspaper's have a hopeful future. Then a find videos like this:

It's so sad when people say there is no future at all. But I would say that they give good reasons why and the main reason that everyone and everything seems to be coming to is new generation and the internet. The younger people love the internet. They are growing up and evolving with the new technology that comes out and changes everyday. The older generation grew up with newsprint. That is what they know and that is what they are sticking to.

 Which is completely understandable. The world changes and so does the people that are living with it. More generations are coming and with them, new devices and a different way of life is coming to. We can't stop it, no matter how hard we try.

But we can't give up either. We can still make sure that newsprint does not die completely. We can try to keep it around as long as we try and show they we care and need them. If we give up now, then the newspapers will disappear very soon and very quickly before we even know it.

So what can we do to make sure that everything stays put for at least a little longer?

There is faith!

Warning!!: Please make sure your sound if not up too loud, the music does get super high.

I found this video while looking for some wider outlooks on the newspaper. When I found this and read what it had to say, it made me excited because now I know there is a little hope for the future of newsprint. The person who made this video did great research to why the newspaper is not dying.

The video explains that more people like the experience of reading the newspaper compared to looking at the computer screen. It also goes on to give some good examples of why the newspaper is a little better then the internet, like:

• The newspaper is more reliable and does not give pop up's at all!
• The newspaper is recyclable.
• The newspaper is accessible and light weight. It does not require you to carry around cables or a bag like a laptop does.

This video made me extremely happy. I love that there are still people out there that believe in newsprint.And hope that there is a long future for them, like there has been a long past (since they have been around for sooooo long).

Are we apart of this?

Is the newspaper dying by itself or are we letting it die?

Of course we are apart of what is happening to the newspaper world today. New generation loves new technology. And the older generation have just stopped caring about the past because the believe nothing is going to happen even if they try.

WRONG!

Trying is more then what anyone is doing now. The old saying is "a little effort can go a long way". We can all do something little and make a big outcome  by saving what we know, the newspaper?

But what can we do? That's simple, go buy a newspaper or a couple newspaper. Stop using the internet so much. It's not that hard and we all have to start somewhere. The cost of a newspaper is not high so it's not so bad to walk into a near gas station or grocery store and grab one.

Can we at least do that? When the newspapers start seeing more people buying paper copies, they will see that we still want them around. Because we do!

Top Ten (Thanks to Ryan Thomas)

http://listverse.com/2011/07/03/top-10-reasons-the-newspaper-is-dying/

This is one of the best articles I have found while researching this topic. Everything he says is completely true which is upsetting but it's right!

10. Aging Audience
9. No Passion      (Lazy people/no creative!)
8. No Journalism (Really????)
7. Impractical
6. Cost
5. Literacy
4. Wasteful
3. Big Business
2. Cable
1. THE INTERNET  < Obviously!!

It's so important..

Being a journalism/communication major, the newspaper is a big part of my own life. It sounds weird to certain people, but the newspaper is where I got my dreams from.

I've loved writing since I was as young as I could remember. Around the time I was in high school, is when I realized I wanted to be a reporter/writer for the newspaper.

My junior year, I had an internship for the Post-Gazette in Downtown, Pittsburgh. From then on, I knew what I wanted to do. My goal was to go to school for journalism and try for a job at a local newspaper, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

If the newspaper dies, there goes everything I wanted and worked for since high school.

I'm sure I am not the only one who wants to write for a newspaper, either in Pittsburgh or another city. What about writing for the New York Times? If the newspaper dies, those dreams are gone because job cuts will happen. If job cuts happen, they won't be able to hire new writers.

Do we really want to lose everything we worked so hard for these last couple years???

<----- We want the newspaper to stay on top of the internet!!

Why throw away something old, when it's so important to us?

 The first newspaper was published in 1620 in Amsterdam. Since then a ridiculous number of newspaper have been published all around the world. 

Newspapers have been our way of life. The way the media has delivered the news to the public. 

Technology is improving and changing everyday right before our eyes. But the newspaper still stays around. 

But that does not mean it will stay around forever, which means a lot could change around here. Losing the newspaper means losing a part of history we all grew up knowing. Yeah sure, you can say "it will always be there still", "we can save a few copies so that future generations still know what it is", or "we can still teach it in our schools", "it will always be history". NO! If the newspaper dies, it's gone. It will be forgotten, forever.. 

Losing the newspaper, also means losing potential jobs. We have people right now who work on layouts of newspaper, even printing the newspaper to be delivered on your front porch every Sunday morning. So that means we ever have people who job is too transport the newspaper. If the internet gets any bigger, the newspaper will disappear. Sure we can get our news from the internet, it's so much easier. Right? 

Yeah it is easier. But every once in a while, it's better to hold that newspaper in your hand. Take it to class and use a couple articles for reference, instead of wasting paper to print out an article from the internet. 

SAVE THE NEWSPAPER!!!!! Before it's too late...