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Discussing the business, Rooney stylePosted Monday, November 17, 2008, at 2:09 PM
So, Andy Rooney is a journalist after all.
Rooney, a long-time commentator for CBS' 60 Minutes, took time Sunday evening to discuss the state of the newspaper business. He, like others, told it like it was. He is worried about the business as most of us are. During his commentary segment Sunday, Rooney talked about how too many newspapers are going out of business and that people have been reading about the decline of newspapers for years. Newspapers are in direct competition with radio, television and now the Internet. Circulation numbers for newspapers in general are down and they keep declining. But, according to Rooney, there "is still no decline in the faith that people put in their newspaper. Readers check their newspaper every morning to see whether what they saw on television the night before is really true." Rooney added that people read "our newspapers too for all the good pieces of information that television has no time for." He also talked about how news on television is there one minute and gone the next. For years, there has been wide speculation about whether a television journalist is a "real journalist." Unlike a news reporter, TV journalists don't get as much space on a page. As Rooney said, TV journalists get about one minute of time for stories. One minute of time on television is equal to a 10-inch story (if that). Print journalists typically have more time to collect facts for print. Sometimes, however, they simply don't. If you have time, you should check it out. His commentary from Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008, can be accessed here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/1.... The commentary is referred to as "Andy's Homage To Newsprint, Andy Rooney Reflects On The Steady Decline of Newspaper Circulation." Comments Showing most recent comments first [Show in chronological order instead] |
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I am a "visual" person and I like to actually hold in my hand the newspaper! I remember in my childhood, my family got both the Brazil Times and the Terre Haute Tribune Star. Of course, by the time we usually received the BT it was old news, and already read from the THTS, but there is just something special about having a hard copy of what you are reading. Just like reading a book-turning the actual pages, I've tried to read books online-not the same effect! Long live the actual newspaper! :)
A loss in circulation doesn't mean a loss of faith. In my humble opinion, just as demonstrated here, with each comment posted to a blog... a loss in circulation could just mean more and more readers are turning to the internet to read their paper. When so many of us already pay for the internet and can access the news, including the paper, what is the point of spending more money to buy it in print? I realize that not everything that is in the printed paper makes it to the internet version but most are willing to make the exchange for the ease of use and the benefit of saving money.
In turn, one can't be as interactive with a printed version as we are here, which to me is a bonus.
So a decline in circulation doesn't really mean a decline in faith.
But, according to Rooney, there "is still no decline in the faith that people put in their newspaper. Readers check their newspaper every morning to see whether what they saw on television the night before is really true."
And he knows this how? Isn't a loss in circulation also a loss of faith in the medium? If it isn't why do people have faith in something they don't bother to read?