The case for print journalism - sep 2016

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/newspapers-print-news-online-journalism-214238

"Why Print News Still Rules - I’ve been an online journalist for 20 years—and still, you’ll have to pry my newspaper from my cold dying hands."

I get most of my news from the Web as it flows to my desktop, my tablet, my phone, and now my watch.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Walking through the POLITICO newsroom I inhale the news from the TV screens that cover the walls.

Mmm. I didn't realize that it was possible to get "news" over a TV.

When it comes to news, I'm an ocean that refuses no river. But when it comes to immersion—when I really want the four winds of news to blow me deeper comprehension—my devotion to newsprint is almost cultistic. My eyes feel about news the way my ears feel about music driven from a broken pair of speakers—distorted, grating, and insufferable.

Uh, what? Get to the point, instead of writing the opening to a novel.

Reading online, I comprehend less and I finish fewer articles than I do when I have a newspaper in hand.

I've read a story or two that supports the notion that reading print leads to better comprehension. I don't remember why. That's funny. I obviously read that claim online.

A print newspaper supports my idea of adopting the Slow News Movement.

More form the Politico story:

As a more rudimentary form of media, newsprint has the power to focus me. It blocks distractions. Give me 20 minutes with the newsprint version of the Times and I'm convinced I could clobber anybody in a news quiz who used the same time reading from the Times website.