The
invention of the world wide web has changed the world that we live
in. The internet influences and constantly changes our general
habits, creates new trends, helps to keep in touch with each other,
and keep up with the happenings all over the world. This medium is
slowly superseding almost every other medium which reported news and
informed people beforehand. People tend to watch their favorite
series on the internet instead of the television, listen to music
online instead of turning on the radio, and of course, read news
digitally instead of buying newspapers. Several papers in the UK,
such as the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and also
The Independent itself have now more online readers than print
readers. The purpose of this essay is to highlight why thr internet
is taking over the role of print newspapers, focusing on three main
points.
First
of all, online news articles are easy to update. In the case of
newspapers, if a printing error happens, publishers have to reprint
the whole paper or apologize for the mistakes in the subsequent copy.
Print papers cannot inform their readers constantly about the ongoing
events. Journalists have to sum up the main points of an event until
their deadline, and everything that happens afterwards is going to
take place in the following day's copy. On the other hand, digital
news articles can be corrected or refreshed at any time, hence they
are able to give a continuous flow of the current news. When some
kind of catastrophe happens, a serious decision attracts the world's
attention, a governmental election is in progress, and in several
other cases the audience demands a permanent connection with the
occurrences. Digital newspapers are able to provide this connection,
which is a great advantage in comparison to print ones.
Secondly,
online newspapers are easy to access regardless of location. A
newspaper subscription requires a fixed place where the paper is
delivered to, but an online subscription is accessible at any place
through a computer, tablet or smartphone which has internet
connection, or in case there is no Wi-Fi nearby, they can read the
downloaded version of the paper. Thus, subscribers can keep up with
the current news and carry their favorite newspaper with them even if
they have to go away for a while. Downloading the online journal in a
smartphone during a break or a meal is much easier and more
comfortable than carrying a paper around. Everybody likes convenient
solutions, and the digitized newspaper is definitely one.
Last
but not least, online news pages have one more unbeatable advantage
compared to newspapers. It often happens that a news article refers
to a former event or a related occurrence, or that someone encounters
a piece of news which is the sequel of a former event which they have
not heard or read about. When it happens to someone reading a print
newspaper, they have to orient themselves from another source, or
look up the previous newspaper to get to know the antecedents. In
contrast, online journals can embed a link to the related concept, or
offer the related, previous articles at the end of the text. This
feature also makes digital papers more effective than print
newspapers.
By
conclusion, online news pages offer continuous information flow, easy
access at any place, and a more extensive report on a particular news
item than their printed counterparts. Simply saying, it is easy to
diagnose that digital papers are more convenient than print papers,
and this feature is a greatly needed demand of the busy and always on
the move people of the 21st
century.
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