do you think there will be a time when people stop buying newspapers?

Question

theres so many different ways of recv, news these days , do you think the old newspaper will become a thing of the past ?

Answer 1

In Popular Science I've seen articles about a flexible digital paper that they're trying to come out with. I think that someday we'll get our new wired to us somehow.

Answer 2

The debate about this continues. In UK and in London, we have seen in recent years to dawn of the age of the free newspaper[s]. Journalists say the newspaper will never die, well maybe not quite. In reallity what we now call a newspaper actually carries very little news that we do not already know about from tv, radio and frequent visits to assorted blogs. I believe that news is a two way conversation and not a lecture and that the blog, if not already, is the future of news. It is us, the citizens who are now making it thus.

Answer 3

The time is now. Most people get their news from the internet, television, or via some other electronic device. The only bonus newspapers will always have is that they squeeze in all the extremely local news, like the local parade, football game, homecoming queen, etc. Most people I know only subscribe to the Sunday edition of their local paper.

Like my dad always told me: By the time the newspaper prints & distributes, it's yesterday's news.

Answer 4

And put me out of a job? OI!!!

* I do think the position of a newspaper is changing. The news is available every second. So people might want to read the paper for background information and/or interpretation of the news.

* Besides, if there's no paper anymore, what you do have to put in the cat litter then?

Answer 5

I think not. People seem to trust the things they read more than the things they hear. Holding a newspaper in ones hands seems to make the articles more plausible. So papers may come and go, but they will always be around.

Answer 6

the only time that would ever happen is if, all the journalists of the world became so bad at there job that there would be nothing exciting to read. so people would never bother to buy a paper, then the companies will go bankrupt, throught the economy system of the world. so in fact the answer would be no..it would never happen..even if every news paper was to publish there papers on the net, it would never happen, because not every one in this world has a computer, and we cpould go on and on about this subject,,,but i will stop there. so keep up the good work to all the journalists in this world who make our papers worth reading every day!

Answer 7

No because there are still the old dinosaurs like myself that refuse to follow the trend like sheep and read it on the Internet or from a screen on a mobile phone.

The joy of sitting down with a large coffee and being able to read a paper to me out weighs the options above.

Long live the Dinosaurs!

Answer 8

Newspapers continue to serve small markets where they are the only source for local news. Until the internet starts covering local high school sports, weddings, obituaries, police & fire reports, classified ads, etc., newspapers will survive.

Answer 9

well actually philips came up with a digital news paper a few years ago. It's basically a sheet thick screen on which information could be displayed. So I believe the Paper version will be gone in a few years time

Answer 10

Sure, and cigarettes too. I hate thinking of all of those trees getting cut down just to end up in dumps rotting away. The other one is crating and pallets. Save our forests for oxygen. With so many burning up in forest fires we have do do something different. Yeah, I'm looking forward to those major changes.