Comments on: The end of paper, open gates to on-time democracy (not about journalism) http://ictlogy.net/20090420-the-end-of-paper-open-gates-to-on-time-democracy-not-about-journalism/ Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D Tue, 22 May 2012 12:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: César http://ictlogy.net/20090420-the-end-of-paper-open-gates-to-on-time-democracy-not-about-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-98132 César Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:13:54 +0000 http://ictlogy.net/?p=1974#comment-98132 There's this 'small' assumption that everybody seems to make: radio and TV news do not exist. Why are there so many people equating 'newspapers' with information? In this country, I'm guessing more people get their news from the Cuatro TV channel and the SER radio network than from El País, for example. The end of El País would NOT mean that the PRISA group would disappear. Same thing goes, I'm sure, for any media group big enough to own a newspaper. I will miss paper-printed newspapers when they're gone (and they WILL be gone, sooner or later) but... come on, people, it's not such a big deal (unless you work for one of them, of course): we already have information outside the newspaper world... (Sorry about the slightly off topic rant) There’s this ‘small’ assumption that everybody seems to make: radio and TV news do not exist. Why are there so many people equating ‘newspapers’ with information?

In this country, I’m guessing more people get their news from the Cuatro TV channel and the SER radio network than from El País, for example. The end of El País would NOT mean that the PRISA group would disappear. Same thing goes, I’m sure, for any media group big enough to own a newspaper.

I will miss paper-printed newspapers when they’re gone (and they WILL be gone, sooner or later) but… come on, people, it’s not such a big deal (unless you work for one of them, of course): we already have information outside the newspaper world…

(Sorry about the slightly off topic rant)

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