《报纸会不会消失》英语文章

《报纸会不会消失》英语文章

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Will Newspaper Disappear One Day in the Future?
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With the development of computer technology, our life is changing rapidly. The most important thing that may happen is that the newspaper will disappear, some argue.
As a new and more powerful media, the Internet shows its great power. It can spread the information more quickly and more easily. It makes the world a small one. By which you can know what is happening in the other part of the world, you can get to know the event happen some minutes ago. You can nearly get everything you need, the events about politics, sports and entertainment and business. Whatever you want you can get it.
Really the Internet changes the media in our daily life also.
Although the Internet shows great power, will the newspaper disappear? We should think over this thing. In my opinion, the newspaper won’t and shouldn’t disappear.
Firstly, the newspaper has a history of 400 years, and it successfully survived in the competition with video and TV, and it may also survive in the battle with Internet.
Secondly, when reading the newspaper, we have the absolute initiative. We can decide when and where to read and we can place us in any posture we like. Besides the technology of Internet is not so good that it still cannot satisfy everyone.
Another reason is that the habits of us people are not easyly changed. We prefer the way and the feelings we read newspaper.
Also the newspaper seems to be much more precise. The editor will check the information carefully to make sure it’s true. But in the Internet anyone can put out some news that we can hardly know what is right and what is wrong, making it impossible for us to tell what is the truth.
Another reason is that the computer cannot be widely spread; there are still many people who cannot afford the computer. And the newspaper seems to be much more economic.
The most important reason is that we can think while reading a newspaper. Many newspapers will publish many passages that are idealistic, and by reading these papers we can think over about many things, about life, society, nature and so on.
I think that the newspaper will surly survive in the 21st century and it will also make some great changes to survive. Just wait and what will happen!
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This is an old but also new topic. With the appearance and development of Internet, some media professor had predicted that newspaper would have disappeared one day from our life one or two years ago. To some extent, I agree with them. But when I express such an idea in my own blog, some friends questioned me on this.
In fact, different people have different ideas on such a topic. Among some professors and researchers, the cruel situation for newspaper is they play a less and less important role in the young people’s life compared with the e-media. From the early morning to the late night, young people are searching or reading the first-hand information they need from internet, not from the newspaper and other printed media. As we all know, our society belongs to the young. If they pay little attention to the newspaper, the status of it will fall sooner or later. And the second, more and more newspaper agency began to run in the debt. They can’t draw enough money for their development such as advertisement fees. If newspaper lost the ability of earning money, how can they survive from the cruel market competition? Meanwhile, more and more kinds of media appear which will share the same market and audience of the newspaper. For example, mobile phone is regarded as the fifth media now because they really do some jobs of media such as communication and exchange ideas and thoughts. If the technology develops faster and faster, maybe in the near future we can read mobile phone newspaper on the way to work or anytime convenient for us. Finally, newspaper develops at a lower speed compared with its rivals. We can not deny that newspaper has made some progress during these years, but their progress was not enough for attracting more readers and so their market share decreased.
But at the same time, some experts also disagree with such reasons. In their opinion, newspaper is a mature kind of media which was successfully existed several hundred years. Radio, TV can’t change its role in the society, and of course, Internet can’t, either. Second, only few people can use high-tech in their daily lives, so it is impossible to affect the whole situation. In some backward countries, computer and internet are not as popular as in advanced countries. What’s more, the number of those people is much more than the people who can use Internet everyday. At last, some people who are access to Internet have developed a good habit of reading printed newspaper. In UK, USA, Japan and other developed countries, reading morning newspaper is an essential part of life for many families even if they can find such news online. Also in China, some elitists seldom watch TV, but they prefer reading newspaper as their information channel. For those persons, can you imagine what their life will be without newspaper?
All in all, it is an indefinite topic for us and it will last for a long period. The only thing I am sure that newspaper will still stay with me during my life even though I get most information from Internet. Talking about or predicting its future? I can’t, maybe only the Gold knows!