This is apparently the case so if newspapers die off I guess there will be a lot of unhappy people. I don't think I could personally do without my fix of a local daily newspaper. The Times-Colonist has had an interesting series on "The Enduring Newspaper" which is encouraging for all newspaper lovers. It does seem things aren't perhaps quite as bad in Canada as it seems even with all the current debt problems of CanWest.
Although I usually go onto the Telegraph online to pick up the headlines and might read a story online it's not a substitute for reading a real London newspaper or any local paper...something we love doing wherever we are. Ian Wilson, recently retired as Librarian and Archivist of Canada, has some very interesting thoughts as to why print newspapers are so appealing.
"There is something more in reading a newspaper--with the stories juxtaposed piece by piece on a page. It's not just the headline, it's the ad, it's the comic strip, it's the news, it's the analysis, it's the coming events. It's the totality of that--seeing the whole community. Seeing the same information in the disjointed, layered fields of the computer screen too often leads to a fragmented world view that the newspaper experience- paper in hand, to be leafed through like taking a trip from Canada to far-flung parts of the globe and bacd to city hall--surpasses every time."
Absolutely agree with that! And perhaps that explains why the dismal French newspapers of Le Monde and Le Figaro which consist primarily of academics and intellectuals conducting debates on issues just don't cut it. The only voyage you've taken is a trip to a lecture on politics.
We’re still kicking, thanks, and here’s proof
