The Explorer Weighs In: The decline of print journalism
CORY SCOTT/Guest Contributor
April 3, 2009
The past couple of months have been tough for journalists across the country.
With the closure of newspapers across the country such as the Rocky Mountain News, Seattle Post-Intelligence, and possibly the cessation of San Francisco Chronicle, we here at The Explorer have felt a certain obligation to put in our own two cents on the situation concerning the field we feel obviously passionate about. Print journalism has been a tradition America has kept for over 200 years.
But now many newspapers are going out of business. While we understand the need to keep up with the burgeoning technology of the age we live in, there is something about up to date and tangible news that makes a real difference. With the steep decline of the advertising industry over the past year, print newspapers have been hit the hardest and in return have been laying off jobs copiously.
While newspapers have been close to dying in the journalism industry, online “zines” and blogs have popped up by the billions.
Whether it’s the student with a new Tumblr or the MSNBC.com website, readers everywhere have taken to the new and easier method of going to the internet to find the articles they didn’t feel like reading in the paper. To those people, we have a couple of words to say. Please, buy a paper. Save an industry that deserves to be saved. With the way technology has accelerated, it is more than likely that we might end up having The Explorer be only online too.
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