Revenge of the Trees
Mashable recently posted an article about The Dire State of the Newspaper.
As an online content professional who is trying to blog regularly, I felt the need to opine a bit too. The basic premise of the post is that print news is not dying but evolving into a digital medium and that traditional publishers of print are either too slow or are clumsily trying to adapt.
No shit?
I have never been a fan of newspapers. Ever since I was a Post★Child, I’ve thought they were the most cumbersome means of reading anything ever invented. Compared to magazines, I felt almost insulted that I be subject to the flapping about of hand-staining newsprint, desperately trying to orient the damnable thing in a manner that was comfortable to read in.
Offering me a digital version of news with just the mind boggling option of Crtl+F, well come on people, it’s like being given a Portal gun. Let’s just move on already. Do we really have to lament the loss of horse and buggy in wake of the automobile? Get the show on the road.
No love will be lost if the the New York Times folds, because in the age of the Internet, all I want is my news to be accurate, not branded. So I guess with the coming of our beloved iJesus device everyone will be more comfortable with the idea of online and digital content, but the real problem isn’t the platform, it is getting paid for doing it.
But that is a whole other post, don’t you think?
