A life without newspapers

With the internet and the electronic media becoming more and more popular, there’s a growing fear that one day newspapers will simply vanish from our lives. Would that really matter to us?

It should, according to Beth Teitell.

In a rather anecdotal tongue-in-cheek view published in the Boston Globe, Beth Teitell gives us hope that there are still a few applications for which newspapers are irreplaceable.

Here’s one:

“You can shed a tear right now for the iconic ransom note, with letters clipped from newspaper headlines. What’s a kidnapper to do? Print out letters at home using different fonts and point sizes?”

You can read Beth Teitell’s complete article here.

You can also read related posts from my blogs here and here.

[Citation: Save the Presses! by Beth Teitell, the Boston Globe dated 17 May 2009.]