Please tell me what television or newspaper can do that internet can't? In the internet you have both the printed and the videos plus with smart phone technology and e-readers you can now take the internet anywhere.
Knew someone was gonna call Spud on that one.
Of course the internet can provide video and the printed word just as TV and newspapers do.
At the moment, however, there is no realistic monetary model/mechanism to enable them to do this as well and still remain financially viable. It's coming, of course, but that day isn't here yet.
That aside, there is also the question of the technological have and have-nots on this planet, a gap which seems to be increasing rather than diminishing.
One doesn't have to be a multimillion dollar corporation in order to start up a small newspaper or print pamphlets on issues that concern one.
A local newspaper's voice may well be drowned out in the vastness of the intrawebs.
There is also something comforting about the physicality of a newspaper. The fact that you can pass it on for free to someone who doesn't have it is also not reproducible with the net.
Also it's hard to bring yer PC into the bathroom with you fer a morning read although, granted, the advent of the iPhone and such is making that much easier.
Television is still the electronic campfire around which the family unit gathers and shares experiences while the intrawebs is more of a solo activity.
We are, after all, social animals.
While, there is no doubt that eventually TV will be broadcast simulataneously on the net as a matter of course Spud still feels that the one medium will not supplant the other but support each other.
Books will never die despite the advent of the Kindle et al.
Either will magazines.
New media are an addition to not a replacement for.
Hope that clarified Spud's position somewot.
Be Well.
