I disagree that the “status of newspapers is not going to fall completely”. I believe that by the constant changes that we make to the way we get our news will lead to the fall of newspapers completely. I am not necessarily saying that will happen within the next couple of years but I would not be surprised if it happened within the next ten. It is very true that there are many people that are in a routine of buying a newspaper every Sunday or sitting down to breakfast with the local news. But reading the newspaper has now been typecast to people such as Megan’s parents or my grandparents and not college students like us.
Megan mentioned how easy it is for most people to get news stories from their cell phones. This is one of the reasons why the Web is so flexible. As Stovall mentioned “The Web can handle a wide variety of formats for presenting information. It can simulate print with words, sentences and paragraphs.” The flexibility of the way you can receive information makes the Internet a prime source of news. It is fast, easy and relevant. In The Becker-Posner Blog they discuss in full how the Internet has one handedly taken down newspapers.
The amount of information that is on the Web is inevitable. Newspapers and the Internet are comparable in consistency, accuracy and credibility. Some websites are better then others just like newspapers. When it comes to the amount of information and ability to continue research the Internet and newspaper are not at all comparable. Not only is the Internet full of information but it continues to grow and expand and had that ability because of the expansion of technology. Unfortunately I don’t see any way for newspapers to catch up.
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