Newspapers... Going Going Gone...

I really do not want to see printed news go by the wayside. Although it is likely to happen in the future as we become less motivated to get off our couches. Newspapers however should not become things of the past. This may sound far fetched, ML but the only reason that we have that now now now attitude is because the media created it. They want us to "need news now" but really we don't. Are we going to pass out because we didn't read or see some petty theft or burglary or that the Bucks won tonight a minute after it happens? I don't see it happening. Which is actually weird, because the media did create this I need it now attitude. It confuses me though, because they print the papers, whose subscription numbers are falling and falling and falling. Perhaps this point isn't entirely the reason for the Decline and Fall of the Newspaper, but it counts for some of it, that much I know.
Being able to find well-rounded information on a topic through the internet is one thing I agree with ML about. That is important to a lot of people and is definitely a positive of the internet-based news coverage. It gives the reader a chance to be more "objective" in their understandings of a certain topic.
However, one interesting point that Silverblatt mentioned in his Media Literacy article was that certain media outlets might not be so objective in their news because of their ties to other companies in the section where he talks about Media Ownership and News Content. I think this is a very interesting point because the fact that newspapers rely so heavily on their image of beings objective I wonder how many people actually realized that their news is slanted.
Regardless of objectivity, the face of newspapers is changing and I hope will don't have to see the complete extinction. For whatever reason, newspixel doesn't ring the same bell.