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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ   -------link.     This is an early look of the news being online,long before the internet was born. lol



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Ha thats a pretty cool video.  Interesting to see how far technology has come in less then 30 years.



I still read Newspapers

Internet News is great, especially as the only sites I use are still free, none of this paying bs.

but if im out and about (like on a train or something) then its nice to sit down and read a paper, cant access the web on my phone very well, even if I could, the screen is way too small for it to be any good.



Well newspapers in terms of being paper are obviously in a decline, but they're still read by rediculous amounts of people every day. I still buy several papers every weekend.

But the decline of course is there. But of course many people read the news on websites made by the newspapers and of course they're releasing more and more subscription services for ebook readers and the like.

So whilst the paper in the word may eventually die out (though its still a long long way off before they stop paper news completely) the news certainly wont.



Iv started reading a newspaper everyday, so I hope they dont get phased out anytime soon



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My newspaper class is going online next year along with print, and I predict the print will eventually die off.

 

Quite a pity, actually.



haha,2 hours to download the morning edition

people always declare somethings to be disappearing,i think people like their newspapers especially at the weekend,maybe it will be a generational thing but as with everything when it becomes non profitable it will end

my parents abosloutely love their newspapers,newspapers are in decline they say,but magazines seem to be doing very well



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Its happening in America faster than anywhere else, and at the same time India and China are booming in terms of print journalism, so i wouldn't be worried about temporary instability, untill payment mechanisms work themselves out (i just graduated).



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

megaman79 said:

Its happening in America faster than anywhere else, and at the same time India and China are booming in terms of print journalism, so i wouldn't be worried about temporary instability, untill payment mechanisms work themselves out (i just graduated).


True, the decline in america is actually quite startling. The figures I've read for Australia for example are nowhere near as bad. The decline even seems to the stablising somewhat, at least according to the few sources I've read.



O-D-C said:

Iv started reading a newspaper everyday, so I hope they dont get phased out anytime soon


Aslong as its not a Newscorp publication, i approve.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.