This morning as I was eating my English muffin and reading the Minneapolis Star -Tribune I paused for a moment to realize I was a dying breed. Fewer and fewer people have the old rag dropped at their front door and read it to start their day. I remember as a girl in the 60's my parents would get the Minneapolis Tribune in the morning and the Minneapolis Star in the evening. They really read two papers a day! Now my kids read zero newspapers a day.
I know they can get CNN breaking news on their phones. I know they can go on line at any time and scan the news. I realize 24 hours a day they can tune into CNN, Fox, or many of the other channels and learn what is happening in their global world. Yet, I feel they are not getting the news as I did and continue to do so. One gets to know their newspaper, the writers, the features, and how to read between the lines. Journalists are human and perhaps can slant their articles, but for the most part the news is put out there in black and white for one to read and digest. We don't get a sexy woman delivering us words that might just impact us on how they are delivered to us on the flat screen we sit in front of.
I find it tragic that we are quickly losing the form of communications that our founding fathers found so very important. The freedom of the press,. The newspaper that would be delivered throughout the community no matter what its size allowed citizens to rally for their causes. The printing press is most likely one of the most important inventions in civilization to allow the common person to start governing themselves. People worked hard to learn to read so that they could become informed as to how to control their own destiny. Printing presses have been hidden so that leaders in causes could print the word to rally citizens to their cause.
Don't tell me that today they would Twitter one another! I know how quickly one can pass information in our society. Twitter, how many characters is that? Hardly enough to educate and stir one's emotions to a cause. I would like to see the American Revolution rallied around Twitter.
Call me old fashioned. Call me out dated. Still, call me educated and informed. I reach out to all of you to continue to read the newspaper and be informed. Talk with others about what you read and form your own conclusions. The newspapers is so very important. Plus, how would you train your new puppy if you didn't subscribe to the newspaper?
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