This is something I can sympathise with. Although I am less likely to read a physical newspaper now as compared to perhaps, 12 years ago, it has more to do with the nature of the content, rather than it being a preferred medium. News is ever changing, and using digital medium makes sense, although there are sinister 1984-esque implications to this as well. But hey, think of the paper we'll save.
"WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA." via AspergersPoet
As I was doing a previous assignment for Reporting For Media module, I did notice that even BBC would change the article over time for purposes of accuracy. The URL remained the same, but the pictures and written content were significantly different from day 1 of the Miami zombie incident to the days after.
Things like novels, textbooks and magazines should be inert. Firstly, it’s psychologically comforting to the borderline tinfoil hat crowd (like myself!) and secondly because reading on a page of reflected light is much more comfortable than reading off projected light. The length of the content also comes into play for the exact same reason—these materials are far longer in length than newspaper articles.
via Web users aren’t about to forsake the printed page
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