Chirps from Center Ice

A fan blog about the AHL's Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

The Downfall of the Typewriter

2 Comments Posted by on August 28, 2012

ALERT: This post has no Penguins news in it.

We are witnessing the decline of a staple of everyday life for most people. It is the newspaper. Nearly everyplace you look you are seeing and hearing about daily newspapers going from a daily publication to three times a week.

It happened today, twice in two AHL East Division markets:

Hershey:

https://twitter.com/WaltonCaps/status/240460923637211136

Syracuse:

Tim Leone covers the Hershey Bears for The Patriot News. Lindsay Kramer covers the Syracuse Crunch for The Post-Standard. You can follow both men on Twitter @timleone and @PSCrunchHockey respectively.

Jonathan Bombulie tweeted this form of satire the other day:

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I truly feel a bit of resentment as the untrained, unpaid, “fan blogger” in even continuing and maintaining to blog if by doing so leads to the downfall of print journalism either directly or indirectly.

Let me state unequivocally that it is not this blogs intent to take away from anything the paid professionals, be it in Hershey, Wilkes-Barre, Syracuse, Chicago or beyond put into print. I encourage you to read the actual journalists first because I always do.

That said, the intent of blogging and the downfall of print may be unavoidable in this “I want it now” society. Face it, news happens and breaks in real time in this day and age. The people who truly get their news from a newspaper anymore are few and far between with the dawn of the blog, the smartphone, Twitter, Facebook and beyond. That the newspaper may be extinct in ten years like the tube television is an absolute crying shame.

Buy a newspaper. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Let’s all hope that day never comes.

Just Rambling

2 responses to “The Downfall of the Typewriter”

  1. Kathy Thomas's avatarKathy Thomas August 28, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    I still get the Citizens Voice everyday & would go crazy without it. I prefer to read the morning paper instead of watching the evening news. Sure I like reading the blogs but give me my paper & a cup of tea any day. Just renewed my subscription for another year!

    Sent from my iPhone

  2. JenniP's avatarChasingCheckers August 28, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    I always wonder how much of an affect the TV news stations that produce news articles online has on actual newspapers. I kind of hate these little blurbs… they tend to be pretty poorly written accounts of breaking news in and around my city, but the thing is, they are more “up to the minute” than newspapers. I don’t have cable (or even reliable broadcast) television, so online is my only actual source of news coverage.

    I’ve spent the past two weeks helping my city prepare for the DNC. Inside the arena (where my beloved team plays) cable and local news channels have set up mini studios to broadcast live during the convention next week. There are over 25 mini-studios set up, and the only “print” space I’ve seen is one small box dedicated to the Associated Press.

    I really hope this isn’t the beginning of the end of more print newspapers, but that time is definitely coming.