'We Started Getting a Print Paper Last Year. My Kids Fight Over It.'

Technologies declared dead make an under-radar U-turn. A thread on the virtues of newspaper erupts on twitter. #paperistechnology

I bought a newspaper this morning. It’s really great. Tons of information. Portable. Browsing friendly. No pop up ads, autostart videos or surveys about how many tractors you own.

— Mike Sisak (@mikesisak) October 4, 2018

Subtweets:

We started getting a print paper last year. My kids fight over it!

— Susan Thibeault (@SusanFThibeault) October 4, 2018

Comprehensive reading is difficult online:

With a newspaper you know you've physically scanned every single item, and not missed something that sits on an unseen tab, buried in another story or link. fwiw
I can never feel 100% certain I've seen everything in a digital edition unless I've clicked thru pages multiple times.

— LA Resident Tourist (@LA_Res_Tourist) October 4, 2018

Coda:

And you feel good for reading them instead of being guilty for staring at your phone all day long

— Eric Tucker (@SF_Transit_News) October 4, 2018

From moi:

Newspaper generates its own public-facing ad. Vs. the zombie non-existant ad on the back of everyone's phone.

— AJ Fish (@aljfish) October 4, 2018

Of course there were a few nay-sayers making the well-intentioned yet FALSE claim newspapers are bad for the planet because they kill trees. The newspaper and journalism industry needs to fight back on this hard. Newsprint derives from recycled feedstocks and first-generation paper comes from sustainable rotating tree farms.

#paperistechnology




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