Reading news

Reading news on the internet vs in a newspaper:

I heard one guy on TV say that if you read the news online, you are
less likely to read articles that you would read in the newspaper.
That's even if the same articles are online.

Chakolate...

I'll bet that's true. I go to pages I'm really interested in, like the
NYTimes Health page, but if I had a physical paper in hand, I might find
something on another page that caught my eye.

Jean B....

That's certainly true of me too. I will search for exact
articles online. Not the same as thumbing though a paper at all.

mj...

I believe that, Paco. I prefer to read the newspaper articles even when it's
been on television. I love my coffee and the morning paper too much to do
more than dabble on internet news.

Stan...

Paco, this is probably true maybe it's because when you're reading the
news online you just want to "move on" as opposed to having a newspaper laid
out in front of you and having no sense of "urgency". I don't really know.

At different ages of my life I've read the daily newspaper in different
ways. When I was 10 I would read the funnies first and disregard the rest of
the paper. When I was 15 I would read the sports section first, then the
funnies and disregard the rest. When I was 17, I would read the classifieds
first(for cars, jobs) then I would read the sports, then the movie guide,
and just some of the funnies. When I was in my 20's and 30's I would read
sports and disregard the rest of the paper. In my 40's and 50's I started
reading the "local' news first(arrest reports, tax increases, divorces,
marriages) then sports, then some editorials and disregard the rest. Now we
live in a small N.Ga. town where the local paper is a weekly county paper
that has 4 two page sections. The first two pages have local,state,and
national news along with opinions and editorials heavily interjected with
Christian Fundamentalist values and beliefs. Not there is anything wrong
with this and this is not a religious post. It's just the way it is. The
last 3 sections of the paper are advertising fliers.

Dalin turned me on to a website where I read US and International

Jean B....

I think I'm going to resubscribe to my local paper for a
variety of reasons.

Paco...

Newspapers are losing money. And subscribers. Mine recently thinned out
it's Lifestyle section... Fewer columns and stuff.

Jean B....

That seems to be a rather circular phenomenon: less money, so
less of interest to people, so less readership, and on and on
it goes. Sad really. And again, like email as vs. letters, I
wonder what we are going to leave for future generations.
It's really nice to have some tangible written items....

newspapers. I like reading opinions and editorials in different papers.
Also, online I don't think you can get any better sports coverage than "USA

Crusher...

Try the Animal Planet channel. They do insect stories regularly.

Today'.

Stan (Now I read the obituaries first, I don't know why) :):)