The Future of Print

By Noah Reynolds

 

Many Different blogs, videos and articles that are circulating the internet have a very interesting idea about the future of print journalism. From the Sony Kindle that supposedly is the replacement of printed books, all the way to the new Apple iPad, both seem to be putting the “old school” way of getting the word out down in the dumps. By old school I mean printed. Newspapers and magazines are either turning to the electronic way of spreading the news or even blogs to do the work. On Boston Universities Independent Newspaper “The Daily Free Press” an article states that all of the revenue for newspapers and magazines seem to be suffering tremendously and are having to cut back on the essentials. Lay offs and less issues are all too familiar for most of the Countries best magazines.

My favorite publication “Psychology Today” is one of those magazines that really is feeling the pain. The once monthly magazine has turned to every two months and doubled its subscription price. One thing that seems quite strange to me is that even with the decreasing number of printed publications and the rising number of blogs, people STILL seem to criticize all of the blogs and bloggers. A while back on CBS’ show “Face the Nation” a Washington Post writer compared bloggers and blogging as “Potential Terrorism”

Lets back up one moment, the woman who works for the Washington Post is saying that blogging is Terrorism. The Washington Post that has one of the biggest blogs out of any publication around the US. Things are starting to get strange, on the website publishing2.com an article about this very issue is started off like this “Print is dead and all content wants to be free”

Wow! That is all I can say about the issue, Bloggers are saying that print is dead, printers are saying that print is dead and frankly most of the consumers and readers believe that most of print Journalism is gone. Please people of the internet don’t make print dead, read magazines and newspapers, and read the blogs, like this one.

 

DQ: Do you think print is dead?