Comments on: Students don’t read newspapers Shock! http://www.andydickinson.net/2009/03/12/students-dont-read-newspapers-shock/ online and digital journalism, newspaper video and digital media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Kristine http://www.andydickinson.net/2009/03/12/students-dont-read-newspapers-shock/comment-page-1/#comment-12421 Kristine Mon, 09 May 2011 22:28:06 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=1422#comment-12421 Wow. (Insert sad face emoticon here.) Morgan: "newspapers should be go away" and "their dead"? Really? You just made the perfect example of why young people, as I am assuming you are, SHOULD be reading the paper. The propensity of "young people" today to write/type in a texting format is horrific and abominable. It is also an insult to the English language. I'm going to help you out here.... "Their" is possessive, "They're" is the contraction of "they" and "are". Jeez. Ps. I, too, am a "young person". Wow. (Insert sad face emoticon here.)

Morgan:

“newspapers should be go away” and “their dead”? Really?

You just made the perfect example of why young people, as I am assuming you are, SHOULD be reading the paper. The propensity of “young people” today to write/type in a texting format is horrific and abominable. It is also an insult to the English language. I’m going to help you out here…. “Their” is possessive, “They’re” is the contraction of “they” and “are”. Jeez.
Ps. I, too, am a “young person”.

]]> By: Morgan Dashia http://www.andydickinson.net/2009/03/12/students-dont-read-newspapers-shock/comment-page-1/#comment-10889 Morgan Dashia Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:21:58 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=1422#comment-10889 newspapers should be go away, no young people read them, their dead. Electronics are used more than anything, and their more accessible, most people have internet on their phone. :) THE END! newspapers should be go away, no young people read them, their dead. Electronics are used more than anything, and their more accessible, most people have internet on their phone. :)
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]]> By: Andy http://www.andydickinson.net/2009/03/12/students-dont-read-newspapers-shock/comment-page-1/#comment-7047 Andy Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:21:10 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=1422#comment-7047 David and ex-night editor I agree that the issue of how we make this digital stuff pay is something that needs sorting. I suppose my point was that as a student of journalism, rather than student(which in some of the debate seems to be shorthand for feckless young person) it doesn't matter if it's good, bad or dying. The importance or otherwise to democracy is not at issue. In the purest academic sense they should be engaging with it. To ignore it is a bit like studying to be a doctor but ducking out of class when they do the bowel stuff because 'its all a bit dirty down there' and "anyway, I want to be a plastic surgeon". Good doctors know a bit about everything then specialise. Good students should do the same. David and ex-night editor

I agree that the issue of how we make this digital stuff pay is something that needs sorting.

I suppose my point was that as a student of journalism, rather than student(which in some of the debate seems to be shorthand for feckless young person) it doesn’t matter if it’s good, bad or dying. The importance or otherwise to democracy is not at issue. In the purest academic sense they should be engaging with it.

To ignore it is a bit like studying to be a doctor but ducking out of class when they do the bowel stuff because ‘its all a bit dirty down there’ and “anyway, I want to be a plastic surgeon”. Good doctors know a bit about everything then specialise. Good students should do the same.

]]> By: David Nolan http://www.andydickinson.net/2009/03/12/students-dont-read-newspapers-shock/comment-page-1/#comment-7044 David Nolan Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:26:43 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=1422#comment-7044 It's not that students are not reading newspapers, they are, it's that they are getting their news from multiple sources, including online newspapers. They just don't want a physical paper and they don't want to pay for it. The Web has created a culture of "free" information and students are not willing to shell out money for something they know they can get for free. The obvious problem is how do we monetize something that nobody wants to pay for? It’s not that students are not reading newspapers, they are, it’s that they are getting their news from multiple sources, including online newspapers. They just don’t want a physical paper and they don’t want to pay for it. The Web has created a culture of “free” information and students are not willing to shell out money for something they know they can get for free.

The obvious problem is how do we monetize something that nobody wants to pay for?

]]> By: ex-night editor http://www.andydickinson.net/2009/03/12/students-dont-read-newspapers-shock/comment-page-1/#comment-7038 ex-night editor Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:29:52 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=1422#comment-7038 The shame for me is that students who don't read newspapers are missing out on the joys of discovery. Think of it this way. Online news allows consumers to read what they're interested in. Straight to sport. Sort it to AFL coverage. Or politics. Or entertainment. TV offers 30sec to 2mins on no more than 12 stories a day. Formulaic and predictable. Radio offers fresh stories, but again only a limited number of breaking and updating yarns. Newspapers are, by design, able to offer more of a world view. The mix of politics, local and national events, scandal, community ... you may not have been wanting a story on maternity nurses at Royal North Shore, but open the SMH and there it is and boy, aren't you glad you saw it and convinced your sister-in-law to shift to RPA instead. The other pressing question for me is: Who will fund newsrooms in the new media world order? Sure, news will continue, but I fear for the depth of experience, the broad general knowledge, the scope of specialisation and the willingness to invest in big stories that we've enjoyed - and not questioned - for decades. The shame for me is that students who don’t read newspapers are missing out on the joys of discovery.

Think of it this way. Online news allows consumers to read what they’re interested in. Straight to sport. Sort it to AFL coverage. Or politics. Or entertainment.

TV offers 30sec to 2mins on no more than 12 stories a day. Formulaic and predictable. Radio offers fresh stories, but again only a limited number of breaking and updating yarns.

Newspapers are, by design, able to offer more of a world view. The mix of politics, local and national events, scandal, community … you may not have been wanting a story on maternity nurses at Royal North Shore, but open the SMH and there it is and boy, aren’t you glad you saw it and convinced your sister-in-law to shift to RPA instead.

The other pressing question for me is: Who will fund newsrooms in the new media world order? Sure, news will continue, but I fear for the depth of experience, the broad general knowledge, the scope of specialisation and the willingness to invest in big stories that we’ve enjoyed – and not questioned – for decades.

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