Newspapers are unbeatable

Here's an optimistic twist on recent rhetoric about the future of newspapers. Dennis M. Lyons of the Daily Record, a New Jersey newspaper owned by Gannett Co. Inc. quotes Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit that promotes "enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue," who says, "Print. If for the past 400 years we'd been getting all of our info electronically, and somebody invented a way to put it on paper and deliver it to our doorsteps so we could read it in the backyard or bath or bus, people would say this new print technology is so wonderful it will replace the Internet." Lyons goes on to laud the convenience, reach, and influence of newspapers, emphasizing that nothing else sells for so little and provides so much valuable information. He citesRandy Siegel of Parade Magazine who says, "At the end of the day, the power of well-written newspapers is unparalleled in providing meaning, connection and context. In our harried daily lives, the human brain can absorb print more intimately and more effectively that the cacophonous, often confrontational messages blaring at us from the electronic media hundreds, if not thousands of times per day."

Source: The Daily Record