Fold and Toss & Fold and Toss….
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Ina | Jul 15, 2009
Fold and toss & fold and toss & fold and toss….house after house. Are you old enough to remember this? This was the little boy who lived down the street and delivered your newspaper. If he were lucky, he had one of those spiffy canvas bags he wore to carry the papers. He got very good at tossing your paper on the porch, unless you were mean to him and then he would hit the bushes or a puddle.
Do you still have the newspaper delivered? I do. I like the feel of the paper and the ritual of spreading it out to read while I eat breakfast. On Sunday I take the whole thing apart before I even start my reading. I sort the parts I want to read in their “proper” order and get rid of all the fillers and ads.
Unfortunately my pleasure is slowly being taken away. Today’s paper only had 36 pages (plus the ads). It barely lasts through breakfast. Because of economics, papers are cutting back on their hard copies. They are pushing readers to the internet. They are waving a two edged sword—encouraging people to read the paper online causes the loss of readers for the “real” newspaper. Many of the country’s newspaper publishers have converted to online publication only.
Getting the news without the ritual of the daily newspaper is like the difference between eating and dining. You do get the job done, the fuel for your machine, but where is the pleasure of the slower pace and the feel of the paper.
Life is already moving too fast, I want to hold on to the small pleasure of reading the newspaper with my breakfast in the morning. Is that asking too much?
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It saves paper and trees and the environment! Not sure the effects of reading them on the net though, I mean if the electricity used causes less harm than printing all those newspapers.
Well, Please note in the PLC (Product Life Cycle) newspapers is in a decline stage.
Certain profession will vanish, I’m a 44+ years man, when I started my career in Calcutta with one TATA firm I used to find Typist in Calcutta we used to call them Type Babus, but you don’t see any Typist any longer.
Recently Nada was fell down in the bullets of the fundamentalist in Teheran, somebody took the clips and twitted it, like wild fire it went out the whole world, Iran is thinking of banning social Media, but can’t stop it, this is the age of information, bombarding with information is the order of the day.
The profession of journalism may stay or not is a question mark.
With the TLC (Technological Life Cycles) becoming shorter things are becoming good.
BUT a very important point, for India, we have unique problem that the economy will grow with out employment, the new papers boys will not get jobs, same thing is happening in U.S.
If it happens in U.S. today it will happen in India in 3 -5yeras times.
Retaining these newspaper delivery boys will be big question; in India we have a disguised unemployment.
With Warm Regards