Thursday, January 06, 2011



Shouldn’t there be a renaming of the daily print product?

In olden days newspapers were the only source of information for the people, and that too received after weeks or months of the event happening and reporters or agents carrying the news piece physically.

About those times, reports spoke about the news of Abraham Lincoln having been assassinated reached the UK months afterwards as brought there by a ship.

Now news is spreading like wild fire every moment, by digital and news channels. There is no point in the daily newspapers carrying the next day the news of the previous day as published by channels and other screen media like internet the previous day.

Daily print medium has relevance only for analyzing, expanding , giving wider backgrounders, and pointing out what next as comprehensible for a wider section of people, maybe with encyclopaedic explanation. The five Ws and one H aspects had already been carried by other channels the previous day.

So why not renaming newspapers as Viewspapers or so?

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