The Internet Ramblings of the QiRanger

Stop!!!!!

When I woke up this morning and started to read my news feeds, I saw the following story:

In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions.

It’s something that I’ve known was coming for a long time. The method of distributing the news has changed so much in the past 10 years that print is essentially dead. Even as I teach my Newspapers Honors class, I rely only on web articles to teach the content, since it is easier and faster to get current events to discuss.

Bu I am truly sad, for there is something very special about waking up in the morning, walking out to the driveway and collecting that rolled goodness if information. To sit at your kitchen table with a hot pot of coffee and see what’s going on in the world. In fact, my greatest fear with the fast-coming demise of newspapers is that people will cease to see what’s going on locally.

In fact, I think the most intersting section of newspaper has always been the Opinion section – something that never quite lives up to snuff when viewing it online. In the years to come, I really hope that a better translation of news can come to pass.. but as geeky as I am. I still prefer the paper-in-hand approach.