What occurred to me was on a trip over Route 66 to pick up a friend arriving on an inbound flight. A story about the media came in over the airwaves and I immediately knew it was unavoidable. You see, there was a time when the only way you could tell people something new was to touch them with a letter, a phone call, or a greeting at a familiar street corner. Nowadays, we travel the superhighway with an urgent sense of mass migration.
The news stated that papers were facing a difficult climate while staying around to deliver success. One expert thought the ills of recession were responsible for roughly half of the industry threatened by bankruptcy. The other half of the story concerned important ways newspapers are coping with red figures. Many manage to stay afloat like Chrysler and Saab by using their expertise to build standardized parts shared by the company. Inevitably, the appearance of generic replacements hits the profits of any proposed deal.
Newspapers are losing their readers to online sources, where there remains confusion over how costs should be assessed to readers and advertisers. It is known that real content widens the inventory and drives ad prices down, yet the money still comes from somewhere. A representative from an online provider admitted he received evil remarks for charging for information, yet he chose to come clean by thinking that his critics were "backing off."
The last thing I need to mention is the importance of what we listen to or read. What we ignore could mean life or death, which is why I cannot wait for it to come to my door. It is good to hear that our chief diplomat visits South Korea to tell them they don't have to take this from the north. Discovering the United Nations address Human Rights, the economy, Global Warming, and security is something to grasp. Sometimes, it seems like the news is telling me what to feel, and I begin to think that I don't need to take this. Instead, I want to describe how I felt and what I thought I heard.