newspapers are forever hw 5b

After reading, “I Blog, Therefore I am” the discussion of newspapers and mainstream media is a reoccurring them that I find a semi-depressing matter. There are many paragraphs and statements revolving around the decline in reading/viewing of mainstream media. On page 241, Kline demonstrates that despite the decrease in newspaper reading and TV viewing that people still use it as their fall back, their reliance for information on the world today. Claming that blogs on the news and happenings in the world are primary news sources when actual mainstream media is their source of information! How can newspapers and other media types have such a decline when bloggers themselves are using they are information for their blogs…if bloggers want to become the next and best media source they need to start getting the news for them instead of using the media they are slowly devastating. Once they deplete the news, as we know it, what will they use? How will they rise to the occasion of being the primary news source for America? When reading the numbers that read or do not read newspapers or books in our country is it saddening to see the numbers are decreasing however I feel the need to contend the fact that newspapers are dying, I believe that they are not dying I believe that the emphasis that they deserve is dying. Newspapers are more then blogs can ever be, they are existent, concrete and something that has been and will be forever a reliable source of media whether or not the blogging industry that sucks it dry for information survives or not.