Below The Fold

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, having published in Washington State's largest city, folded its print edition last week after 146 years in business. The newspaper is now only available online, which must be cold comfort to staffers at the P-I (was Seattlites call it) who were downsized as a result.

With more people inexplicably choosing to read their news off the Internet, and having to boot up and then scroll down to read an article while in an uncomfortable position to do so, those of us who appreciate a newspaper you can hold in your hand and read leisurely and at a relaxed pace are feeling very lonely. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now online only, the Rocky Mountain News folded completely, and the San Francisco Chronicle could follow, leaving San Francisco without a major daily paper (the Examiner long since gone). The Philadelphia Inquirer and even the New York Times are also endangered.

I always thought there'd still be a market for newspapers, wonderful sources of investigative reporting and assets to local communities that the Internet would only supplement, not replace. But more and more people are getting their news from online news videos from CNN or MSNBC, as well as blogs that opine more than report. The news they get is selective, biased, and poorly researched at best. This kind of news dissemination, encompassing the most amateurish forms of journalism, is not what the Internet was meant for.

Everyone knows that the Internet was meant to be a repository for pictures of hot women. :-D

I have never presented this blog as a legitimate news source. :-D