There’s a very funny satire on the concept of the news-paper by Amy Gahran over at Poynter.
Here’s a snippet to give you a taste of it:
“You mean you have to handle all this paper every day?”
“No, I only paid for Thursdays, Sundays, and holidays.”
“You paid for this?…” he frowned, shaking his head. “How do you search it?”
“It’s not really searchable, but it’s scannable. See, you can open up the pages wide and see lots of stories.”
“Looks like mostly ads.”
It remains me of a session on the news habits of young people at last year’s Online News Association conference.
At one point, the panel of youngsters was asked if they ever read a newspaper. The result was blank looks all round, until one of them piped up with the classic comment: “But you get your hands all inky.”
It seems that Amy’s satire is not that far off the reality of today’s media world.
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