Death of the Newspaper! OH NO!

When we recently discussed newspapers and how they’re near extinction I got to thinking of when the last time I actually read a newspaper. I can not, for the life of me, remember when I last picked up a newspaper. I read cnn.com everyday online, then I read Drudge Report (which may not be an underground blog anymore but his headlines and stories are usually one’s that I want to read). I know that may Dad reads the newspaper everyday and my grandparents but the husband and I really have no use for one because we just read news online now.

I was discussing this with the husband last night and we were trying to figure out when they will stop printing newspapers. I see no need for them considering they put all their stories on line. I realize that they can not completely stop printing them because there are older people who still depend on them.

To understand the topic a little better I called my Grandma up to see what she thought about it. She was appalled that I would even consider getting rid of the newspaper. After all, how was she supposed to hear about what was going on? I did not even bring up the fact that it is all online now because that would require me to teach it to her. I have been teaching her how to use email for the past two years and I know anything else would just completely confuse her.

I decided to call my Dad to see what he thought about no more newspaper. He did not have much of an opinion on the matter because for some odd reason he reads both. He says that he receives the paper daily and reads it cover to cover. Then, he goes to work and gets online and skims the articles there too; just in case he missed anything. So- apparently my Dad REALLY cares about what’s going on in news!

After talking to the people who actually read the paper, I talked to people my age who I know do not read the paper. Most of my friends stated that they read cnn.com daily or frequently to catch up on national and global news. We came to a consensus that local news is kind of boring and we just really don’t care. If there is something going on that is really important here, like a wildfire or something, I’ll watch the news program on TV. More often then not, if the news is that big, it will be on one of the news cites that I read online.

I do think that the newspaper is going extinct and I think sooner than later they will have to stop printing it because of cost and lack of subscribers. So, take note, my prediction is the newspaper will stop being printed on Jan 10, 2020. (For the record, I just pulled that number out of my ass. But I’m feeling lucky.)