Well, The Seattle Times, the last remaining daily newspaper in Seattle, has just been diagnosed with a potentially fatal illness. If it dies, the world as we know it will probably come to a sudden screeching halt. At least in this corner of the globe.
Nowadays, people like to get all their information from the web (I sincerely hope you're not relying on blog like this one for all your news). Well, that's just not right. One big, widespread network virus and nobody will have any idea what's going on anymore. Except those of us who actually read the paper. Imagine! A convenient bundle of funky paper that gets delivered to your house every day (with subscription) and contains everything you could possibly need to know, from sports scores and celebrity blunders (and Michael Jackson's death, of course) to political and economic news! Seriously, these things exist!
A really big complaint is that people believe all newspapers have a liberal bias. If that's your concern, go watch Fox News-- it's got a conservative bias! But the fact is that no news outlet is unbiased because the news is written by human beings. And the funny thing about us humans, we have opinions. Crazy, right?
Yeah. So whether you turn to the radio, the web, the TV, or the paper, you won't be getting the whole truth unless you witness everything for yourself. And that ain't gonna happen. Don't fear the media bias: embrace it! Embrace the fact that you're smart enough to tell what's the bias and what's the truth! That, my friends, is the beautiful thing about it.
But I defend newspapers because it's a real, kinetic way to observe what's happening in the world: you can see it, feel the smoothly rough paper, and smell the weird newsprint. And while it's a pain in the insert-choice-body-part-here to wash said newsprint off your hands when you're done, it's still the way man was originally meant to get news. That's right. For hundreds of years, it's been done by paper. And while some traditions (i.e., bigotry, censorship, brutal psychological repression) should die, letting the newspaper industry die is akin to murder. Heck, we already lost the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to it!
The irony of writing this plea on the internet is not lost on me.
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1 comment:
I was about to comment on the irony and I was all set with SUCH wit, until I read your last line and you took it all away from me.
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