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• 4/20/2009 4:11 PM Michael Webber wrote:
  Newspapers bring a form of accountability to businesses and politicians.
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• 4/20/2009 4:11 PM Cassie Rice wrote:
  The value of newspapers is to get local news which is becoming obsolete as the internet grows bigger. So in my opinion the traditional newspapaer is growing outdated.
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• 4/20/2009 4:12 PM Mary wrote:
  Newspapers current value is that they can go more in depth than tv news can. This can, however, be made true of internet news sources, as they have a greater ability to aggregate new media formats and tell more pieces of the story. In my opinion, the only current value of the newspaper in it's physical form is for those of an older generation.
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• 4/20/2009 4:12 PM Whitney Carr wrote:
  I think news papers are a good way to get local news available to a large number of people at any available time
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• 4/20/2009 4:15 PM Brian Wheeler wrote:
  Newspapers are the way news is delivered. They are printed daily for everybody and anybody to read. They are cheap. They don't require any technological knowledge to receive. They have served the same function for decades, which is to give people the news.
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• 4/20/2009 4:16 PM Wes Phelan wrote:
  I think the value of the newspaper as an information distributor and proliferator, it is very valuable to society. I don't know if it needs to exist in a physical form as long as it can be streamed for a cost to a digital device. The tangible feeling of the paper, in my opinion, is an important notion to a dwindling breed, and will be replaced by the digital news eventually. Right now we are in a transitional phase between these two paradigms.
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• 4/20/2009 4:16 PM Henry Hsu wrote:
  For me, the value of newspaper perhaps is the fry's ads. I think it is the product that fit the age without the internet. With internet, newspaper is unnecessary. It cost money, take time to read, hard to get, wasting paper, and the most important thing, it dirty people's hands. I believe the online news and blog is going to replace the newspaper totally. Seriously, I will miss the days that waiting for the newspaper for the fry's ads before black Friday, but this function can totally be replaced. There is no value for newspaper in modern society.
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• 4/20/2009 4:16 PM Sara Safa wrote:
  For the older generation, newspapers are greatly valued. Some people can't go with their day if they don't have their morning coffee with news highlights from the newspaper. Youngsters also read newspapers but rarely since nowadays its available online for free, and its easier for them to look it up that way. Just like I prefer having a book in my hands while reading rather than having an electronized book, some people like their news to be in paper form.
  Generally, newspapers are still greatly valued, but with new technologies and changes, a high percentage of people prefer to read the news in a different form.
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• 4/20/2009 4:17 PM Perry wrote:
  For me? Paper mache. I don't read news papers nor do my parents. I use rss feeds from specialized news aggregators, like Medgadgets. I don't see the purpose of a printed newspaper
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• 4/20/2009 4:18 PM Daniel Whitfield wrote:
  I personally think that at present, there is not much real value to newspapers. Readership among the younger generations is declining, advertisers are deserting printed media and jumping on the digital bandwagon. If we cut out newspapers, there will be more resources that we can devote to other uses.
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• 4/20/2009 4:19 PM Jason wrote:
  Newspapers hold their value in local news and full-length, written articles. The internet is for the people looking for quick news, with very little extended reading. There is also a lot of value in specific columnists that have a following in specific papers, which is rather easily transferred online. The actual paper is becoming a novelty, obviously, and local news, events, and activities will become the focus. They will have to beat out events based websites, etc, and will have to advertise as more-legit operations to do so, i think.
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• 4/20/2009 4:20 PM Karyne Nguyen wrote:
  Newspapers are most valuable and relevant to me when I can relate to and specifically connect with the information. For example, when my favorite musicians visit Dallas and have concerts that I go to, the day after, I'm always excited to go out and buy a newspaper, even if its just for the Entertainment column, so I can say, "I was there" and have that memory; similarly, with the online versions, I'm able to look at pictures taken from the concert and read how the columnist reviewed the show. There is something to said about how having that tangible article still intrigues me enough that I'm willing to buy the whole paper just for that article...it could just be me and how I am a sentimental person who likes having stuff like that for memories, but I think the simple root of it all is that people love it when they can relate to the news, especially if they are a firsthand part of it.
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• 4/20/2009 4:23 PM Alyssa Lee wrote:
  I feel that the newspaper industry holds a quaint value meaning it merely serves as an old-fashioned medium to receive the news. Today, the news is accessible through various technology mediums, such as computers and cell phones, which provide immediate results. These technologies that deliver news via the internet provide news as soon as the stories stream in, which much more efficient than the printing and delivery process of newspapers. Also, physical newspapers are economically and environmentally costly due to the production and recycling of paper. Thus I feel that newspapers have little value -- only the quaint quality of the old-fashioned medium-- for they are not nearly as efficient as other news sources available today.
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• 4/20/2009 4:28 PM Evan Liaw wrote:
  I think it's generally agreed that newspapers are becoming increasingly outdated. Everything that a newspaper offers is now available digitally and more importantly is more easily accessible, which leaves physical newspapers as redundant. Of course, there are still those who would find a physical newspaper useful especially the older generation and those less involved with digital life. But eventually this group will die out and be replaced by a younger and more digital generation. The big question is...why buy a physical newspaper when I can get the same thing for free, faster, and easier digitally.
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• 4/20/2009 4:36 PM David Seltzer wrote:
  As a college student who is connected to various news sources, RSS feeds, CNN's Twitter feed, etc, I have very little use for a newspaper and see little value for it personally. The majority of the content in a newspaper I can find for free online, as opposed to paying nearly $325 for a yearly subscription to the Dallas Morning News.
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• 4/20/2009 4:52 PM Jacqueline Justice wrote:
  I think the value of newspapers lies in the idea of tradition. Without the traditional motivation, it is hard to pass up FREE information that is accessed just as easy. People who did not grow up with the internet are use to having the news delivered to them in print, where they can skim the pages without the steps it takes to log onto the internet and search the news. This tradition is personal. You can write on the paper, cut out the articles, do the crosswords, etc.
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• 4/20/2009 5:01 PM Jett Sarrett wrote:
  The current Newspaper market is in a decline, and I believe as long as they are still catering to a broad general market, it will continue to decline. They need to cater to smaller markets, with customizable options, so the readers can read what they want, without all of the filler or other crap that you don't care to read. With a smaller demographic, they can also allocate their advertisers to certain people, thus making the newspaper more appealing to advertisers, which can bring back the revenue that they are losing. This would essentially broaden the reader base while simultaneously increasing the number of advertisers.
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• 4/20/2009 5:24 PM Shantia Grimes wrote:
  Personally, I have very little use for the newspaper. I get my news online and don't really care for the extra information that the physical newspaper has except for the coupon page.
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• 4/20/2009 5:25 PM Skyler Tinker wrote:
  Personally the value of newspapers to me has been significantly reduced in recent years. Growing up in a home where we received the newspaper daily, my parents stayed relatively informed of current events and they were my primary source for news. As I grew older and began getting the news on my own, my sources became mostly digital. I would never pay the amount it costs for a newspaper subscription when I can get it instantly on the Internet, or through an RSS feed on my iPhone. Plus, I can specialize the content of my feeds and what sources provide me news stories on certain topics, unlike a newspaper where the entire paper is produced by one company and with whatever spin that paper wants to put on it.
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• 4/20/2009 5:38 PM Jennifer McKeown wrote:
  I think the value in newspapers is their ability to inform us on what is happening in our world.
  
  They connect us to it and let us witness things we may otherwise never see.
  
  They also provide a space for us to find specific needs--ads--or ask others for things through classifieds.
  
  They allow us to get a snapshot of the day; the times we are currently faced with.
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• 4/20/2009 8:18 PM Amanda May wrote:
  I think the value in newspapers have declined significantly in recent years. The cost to produce and distribute the newspaper is more than its worth. There are many faster ways in which to retrieve news in a more cost efficient way.
  
  Newspapers provide good coverage of local news and are a good source of information, but they are not the primary source for most of the younger generations. I believe newspapers will eventually be phased out and the news will be distributed with the innovations of technology.
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• 4/20/2009 8:49 PM Albert Almanza wrote:
  What do I think of when I see newspapers? I think of curling up next to a fire in Winter and reading the Sunday comics. I think of eating breakfast early in the morning with my mom and doing the crossword. I think of lazing about on a Summer afternoon, wanting to give anything if I could just figure out what the last word was in the daily Jumble. I think of 9/11, when I asked my parents to pull the car over after they picked me up from school so I could buy the special edition paper that came out late that day. I think of quirky yet hopeful stories. I think of funny political cartoons. I think of shopping with my family with new coupons that we just HAVE to use. I think of silly April Fools jokes the Austin American Statesman pulled.
  
  When I think of a newspaper, I think of something in my life that is always there in much the same way that it has always been. No matter what changes, no matter what happens, the paper is there just as it ever was. You can read it now as a college student, and it will seem just as it was when you watched your parents read it when you were five. The newspaper is nostalgia, it's the one thing in life that was never going to change. And now, so many are pulling for it to do just that.
  
  The newspaper, to me, is more than just news. It's early morning with the family, late nights with your friends... both at the same place: Dennys or IHOP. Now tell me, truthfully, could a newspaper without the paper... a newspaper online... could it really ever have the same memories attached to it? Maybe, but not for me.
  
  A newspaper is more than just news.
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• 4/20/2009 10:11 PM John wrote:
  I feel that journalists will have no problems Adapting to the change of the newspaper. The industry will have no problem changing but people will always want the news.
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• 4/20/2009 10:18 PM Isaac Murray wrote:
  The newspaper industry is evolving and changing as fast as the mediums change around. The papers are faced with the issue of obseletion as well as the changing demographic of viewers. The papers are also trying to adress the synergistic issues of new digital mediums. I think that rather than reinventing the wheel we will see a combination of the two.
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• 4/21/2009 12:03 AM Robert Reynolds wrote:
  Newspapers are significant because they are a great source of information and news in all different categories. But perhaps more importantly, newspapers employ a lot of journalists who uncover very significant news stories that affect us at all different levels: local, national, or even international.
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• 4/24/2009 1:52 PM Josh Dillingham wrote:
  Newspapers values depend on who's reading it. To the older generation its the steadfast way of receiving information and keeping up with things. To the younger generation its a outdated and costly way of finding out things that takes two seconds to find online and monetary cost is zero.
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