Death of the Newspaper

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Mel Fonollera, Blog Writer

In classic crime novels where murder is involved, suspects would always point to a scapegoat.  They would always say that the "Butler did it!"

The newspaper is dying though slowly like arsenic poisoning.  There would only be one suspect - "the internet"

I always arrive at the office early morning at 6.00 am to beat the traffic rush hour. Upon reaching Makati, my place of work, I oftentimes go straight to Jollibee near the corner of Makati Avenue corner Jupiter Street. I prefer to eat breakfast at that fast food because they always have a complementary  "Philippine Star" newspaper.  

I'm not worried that I'll run out of the newspaper to read because not many people are actually reading it. The newspapers just stays on the rack with only a few people, mostly mature diners, taking the time to read the newspapers. On some days. I'm the only one reading newspaper. Most of the diners are young people.

Photo courtesy of Skydancingblog.com

This was not the scenario decades ago. If you're eating in diners, the complimentary newspapers were always borrowed by most of diners, and if one is lucky, especially when there are only a few diners, one can get to read one.

My guess is, not much people are reading newspapers these days, because they can, with ease, read the latest news online.  They can access news anytime anywhere on their smartphones, tabs and laptops.

In the U.S. a lot of newspapers have either folded up or have migrated digitally.  An article in Wikipedia describes this trend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers  Part of the strategy of print newspapers to survive is to have an online social media presence.

Times has changed indeed, all because of the internet.





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