Newspapers vs Facebook. (Blog #9)

Newspapers have been around since the 1680's. They use to be the only way of getting information. At first they would be a couple weeks old, but then they became fast and more reliable. But now with the technology moving at a rapid speed, newspapers are being left in the dust. Or, are they? Many people in the worlds population still read the newspaper. It's mostly the older generation that still use newspapers today and even some professors in Universities and Colleges.
This goes back to a pervious blog about the older generation and using the internet. About 4 in 10 people who are 65 and older, use the internet.*** That means that the other 60% must get their information from traditional ways such as the newspaper. The newspaper is a way for the small percentage of the population to receive recent events in the world.
For a class research paper I had to find Newspaper articles to quote for the paper. I later found out that many professors ask for newspaper articles to prove a point in papers. Even though there has been less newspaper involvement in today's society I don't think that traditional forms of news will disappear completely.    
It seems however, that certain information is not put into newspapers not only because certain newspaper companies don't want to either get into a situation over something or it's a topic the paper doesn't support. In the research article we had to read, I saw that topics such as Celebrities, gay issues, Politics, and foreign events are talked about more on the internet than in the newspapers. It also doesn't help that, especially for politics, the internet is used to see a variety of views not just a signal view or opinion, like newspapers sometimes do. You use to hear most things, if not all things, through the newspaper but with the internet, the newspaper has the choice of not showing certain issues and events.

All in all, the internet has completely stopped the importance or existence of newspaper but simply changed the way people view the news and society itself.










***"Technology Still a Big Disconnect for Older Americans - The Best Life (usnews.com)." Business News and Financial News - US News Business. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2012. <http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-best-life/2012/02/27/technology-still-a-big-disconnect-for-older-americans>.