NEWSPAPERS...a dying breed?

America has woke up to the morning
paper since the first settlers came to
be.

We,modern day American have woke to
enjoy our coffee and newspaper as
routine as breathing.

In the past 5 years or so, some have come
to read it on line. The internet opens the
doors to most papers in the nation.

Because of the internet, papers are starting
to fall. Some have been scared for years.

But losing the paper type of news is
a lot more scary to me. It isn't just the
routine breaker of the morning. It is the
fact that so many people will be without
the news.

How many people in the backwoods have
computers? How many elderly know how
to work a computer. How many poor do not
have computers.

So for the news to get to all people, it
will be thru television and computers, if
the paper type of news falls. Believe it or
not, there are people out there who have
neither. Maybe as much as a third of the
general population. Which by most part,
the other 1/3 could care less. I find that
disturbing. Only 1/3 do care.

And if the worse of things that happen, the
government decide to take over newspapers,
can television be far behind. And that would
be the scariest of all. We all know what happens
when the government takes over a paper. We
have seen it happen time after time in 3rd
world countries. I don't fear this Administration,
but there will be others, that won't be as trust
worthy.

I am hoping that the paper news hangs in
there until I die. As I know most of my
children don't read newspapers, but do
watch television news sometimes. My
grandchildren rarely read any kind of news.
Maybe it is a generation type of thing. So by
the time news becomes important to them,
they will do so by computers or what ever is
the new tech on the arising.

Maybe the paper news will stay alive for a while
in the small towns. And in the big towns, maybe
there will pop up neighborhood newspapers like
in the 1800's. I don't know what the answers will
be... and hopefully I won't live to see the end of
the newspaper... at least locally.