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Serendipity“It’s different from reading news on the Internet, where you pick and choose what to read. If you read our paper, it’s a fairly quick read and you’ll read what you wanted to read, but you’ll also learn things you didn’t know you needed to know.”
—Mario Von Dongen, publisher, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2008
(Thanks to alert WORDster Mark Larson) (CNPA Bulletin, 11/25/08)
Today in History
2004: Morgan Chase buys Bank One for $58 billion; 1998: Whitewater prosecutors interview First Lady Hillary Clinton; 1980: United Nations “deplores” Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; 1972: Richard Nixon announces new troops withdrawals from Vietnam; 1963: George Wallace inaugurated as Alabama’s governor; 1954: Marilyn Monroe weds Joe Dimaggio; 1943: FDR is first president to travel by plane—to Casablanca Conference w/ Churchill; 1875: Albert Schweitzer’s birthday; 1784: Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
I believe reading news on the internet and reading news from a newspaper is completely different. When I go online I am usually looking for more information about something I already read about in the paper or saw on television; I'm trying to find more sources and lengthier reorts. When I read the newspaper I do not have to search out news stories, they have all been gathered up for me. Ocassionally I choose not to read certain articles, but I still have the opportunity to see what is going on in the world printed very clearly right in front of me.
ReplyDeleteI think that is so true! When I read my news online I never find anything I am not already looking for, but when I pick up a newspaper some random headline always catches my attention and I read something from outside my general bubble.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read a newspaper I feel like there are a lot of "filler" articles that are there just to take up space. Every so often they are actually interesting and worth reading but not usually. Thats why I prefer the internet. I feel like if it can make it on the msn.com homepage for example, it's probably worth reading, and most the time it is. I also like that many news articles have video clips that go along with them, it gives you another view of the story.
ReplyDeleteHaha now I feel a little guilty about my own news reading habits. I would definitely be the type that picks and chooses what I read. On another note, depending on the source, the papers can be very biased on what stories they choose to run. Maybe internet skimming is a good thing?
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