My opinion 1

A newspaper becomes less popular or does it still play an important role in people lives?

It has been more than 400 years since the world very first newspaper was published in 1605. Is it still popular among people? What lies ahead for the future of newspaper?

Personally, I feel that it is still a major source of news for not only me but also many people across the world especially in developing countries. But it faces strong competition from other types of media such as television news, the Internet. It is more significant in first world countries where there are many advanced facilities like computers. More and more people prefer to choose internet news because of the wide perspective news from across the world. All you need is to type a keyword you want to know in search engines like Google, Yahoo! And within milliseconds, millions of news can be found and read. And most of them are up-to-date and you can even know the breaking news within minutes from it happened. On the other hand, newspaper is published once a day and it is very difficult to know breaking news. Other media types, like radio news, television channels like BBC, CNN can also deliver live broadcast of important news. If you are very busy and don’t have much time to read through all news printed in tiny fonts on newspaper, you can listen radio news on the go.

But, I totally against with the view that they become an item of the past. I believe that there are many advantages over other types of media. In my opinion, the main reason why they are still preferred is the in depth analysis and full report of the whole event. Moreover, it is independent. What I mean is that we don’t need advanced technology like computer, internet, and electricity. For me, although I can access to the Internet and read many news on the internet, I still spend about one hour reading daily newspaper because I feel that the news in the newspaper are reliable and contain vast ranges of information.

But, today, people have to work very hard and work many hours a day to earn money. So, they spent less time on reading newspapers. And instead, they follow entertainment than information to relax their mind. So, newspapers should make more changes to attract such kind of people. They should include more entertainment news and make the appearance or look of the newspaper and interesting headlines to get attention. And some newspaper integrates with Internet. Some major newspapers have internet websites and accept readers’ opinion and comments about the articles in the newspaper. Some encourage users to become citizen journalists by urging them to send pictures and breaking news tip-offs using email, telephone and so on.

To sum up, as many things have changed and there will be many more changes in the future, newspapers should think of new creative and innovative ways to survive in the world of media.