Remember the Newspaper?

News papers, if they aren't good for anything they're good for starting fires and covering the table when eating some steamed crabs. If you're reading this post you probably don't read news papers and if you're one of the few who do read newspapers and blogs well you're probably in your mid 40's or 50's. Am I wrong? If we're all being honest with ourselves then we know that newspapers are dying. The only people who really buy them or read them now a days are your grandparents. Just because you read the comic strip every now and then does not mean you read the paper and it is certainly not enough to keep the newspaper alive. So which news papers are more likely to stay alive? Is it the New York Times? The Baltimore Sun or is it The good Dundalk Eagle? Well in all honesty I think they are all going to die or at least they are going to be all online. Say bye bye to your fire starters.

The Dundalk Eagle, Dundalks community paper, I hope it stays alive. It's the only paper that posts about the CCBC Dundalk softball team. My picture was in the paper! I know, you all are jealous right? Well if this paper goes out of business I'm going to have to say bye bye to my five minutes of fame and my fire starter! We can't have that now can we? I think this paper will last at least until I'm out of college however. Dundalk is a pretty close community. Everyone knows who everyone is. Where else can you catch up on the local gossip about you neighbor? That;s one of the reasons why I think this paper has a chance of surviving. The public want to know what's happening. The older generation is not going to want to go online and look at blogs or Facebook or Twitter to find out what's happening. Until the older generation dies and this current generation becomes old, newspapers will continue to have some kind of business. Which is good for everyone working in the newspaper business. I don't think environmentalist will be too upset if the newspaper business were to die. Save some trees, that's for sure. That's the only good thing I can foresee coming out of the death of the newspaper industry. I don't read them, but I think we can all agree that we would miss seeing them around. What would we use to start our fires? What would we use to cover our tables when we eat steamed crabs? What will we use as blankets to keep us warm when the zombie apocalypse happens? Those are the real questions. That's why we need our newspapers!

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