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This week I chose to write about how people today receive their information about things that go on around them. Today there are times on television that news broadcasts appear. But with many people leading busy lives, there is not time to sit and watch television. Many people use to also receive a newspaper of some sort to their house, but now you can read most papers on the internet; as well as find the information you are looking for online too. The internet has to be the leading way people get important information about what is going on in their community. News has changed over the last century and some think it is for the better.

Changing the way news is received and obtained has been a growing change. While television has been able to adapt to the change by providing websites that allow people to get local, national, and worldwide information when they want it. Newspaper companies have been struggling. Before, when you had a newspaper delivered to your door, you had to pay a subscription fee. But with less and less people buying subscriptions, newspaper companies are struggling to stay afloat. This is not necessarily a bad thing when you think how much paper is wasted in the United States; we only recycle about 45% of the paper that is used. If we don’t use paper for news, than it would save a lot of waste that we generate each year. But transforming newspaper on the internet is not new, but many of these newspapers do not get any money from it, it is usually a free service or the amount a few do charge does not cover the cost of running the newspaper. People do not need newspapers anymore, they can surf the internet and find out whatever they want. I believe the real trick now is getting advertisers to pay for what subscribers are not anymore.

Some would argue that the Sunday paper is the best, because you get coupons. “The Columbus Dispatch” advertises about how much you can save in coupons that are in their Sunday paper. But if you go to the internet, there are thousands of coupons you can print off, again who needs a newspaper. Who knows, in a couple of years maybe there will not be any newspapers. Our kids will look at us and say, “What is a newspaper?”