The Baltimore Sun is part of a dying breed of media- the newspaper. In the last decade we've refrained from paying for the news that can be found free of charge on the web or t.v. Our current recession has increased this frugally-propelled trend. We've become "tech-drunk" with the easily accessible Internet. But do you remember the newspaper? Remember the crisp stack of newspapers flung to the sidewalk all held together by those two pieces of tightly-wound string? The anticipation comparative to that of Christmas morning-the most recent news to date just waiting to be unwrapped. Or maybe it was wondering what would make the front page. For me personally, it was the sports pages. But it wasn't just about reading the scores. A large part of it was the tangible feel of the paper on my hands. And the first hand accounts of the games and athletic events seemed completely genuine and unbiased. The Internet always felt more fabricated or that the facts could easily be tampered with. A newspaper is completely free of the opinions of idiot bloggers too. Make no doubt, the Internet is taking over. But rather than succumb to the inevitable, we should take a stand. If not for the jobs that newspapers provide then for the literary aspect. The Internet has put a stranglehold on the literary medias of book, magazines and newspapers. These were all valued once as the Internet is today. As we lose these mediums of storytelling, the number of authors and writers will start to decline making writing an obsolete form of record-taking. When we let computers do everything, individualism takes the brunt of the impact.
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