What are newspapers?

  

 Let me ask you something? When was the last time you picked up a newspaper and read it? Some of you might think “Wait what the hell you can read a newspaper, I thought it was there to make paper Mache sculptures.” For those who never knew about newspapers they’re different types of papers, such as Local, Regional, and National Paper.  Local newspapers such as the Dundalk eagle are basically the things no one cares about going on around them, such as who’s marrying who, find this random person to win a gift card contest, and people who are just trying to get rid of old junk. Regional papers such as the Baltimore sun write about who got shot this week, how a Chinese snail lead to a fumigations in the port, and how Maryland is ranked the 15^th happiest state in the country. Now National newspapers is a bigger picture writing about both national and world news. National papers include the New York Times and U.S.A. today. These papers write about “PETA urges vegan diet for alleged cannibal killer”, “Did Obama serve up a coffee cup-salute snafu to Marines?” and different terrorist plots and attacks in the world. Now as everyone expected Newspapers are dying (queue Da Da Daaaa sound clip.) In 2003 the newspaper ad revenue was $46,156 and in 2011 newspaper ad revenue was $23,941.

Now the part the newspapers fear the most which newspaper will die first (queue Da Da Daaa soundclip again). In my nonprofessional opinion the paper I believe will die first (Drumroll please) the local newspapers. I believe the local papers will die first because they have a smaller limited audience, now a days if you want local news all you have to do is check social media or talk to the old neighbor who sits on their porch all day. The newspaper I believe will last the longest is the U.S.A. today because it as a bigger average circulation compared to the New York Times by 600,000 in 2011, but either way the physical copy of the newspaper is declining and probably in the year 2020 everyone might read the news on our Google glasses or a smart watch.

"Magazines"

Now imagine that you are walking to the checkout isle in your grocery store, and you look over to the magazine rack. You would expect to see cooking, health, or how to build a bird house magazines, but when your eyes glance over all you see is how to make you sex life better, how to look thin as a supermodel, weird and random headlines such as “This Is Why Starbucks Employees Misspell Your Name All The Time”, and a whole bunch of useless celebrity gossip mumbo gumbo such as “What Does Anna Wintour Eat For Breakfast? And Other Fascinating Discoveries about Vogue's Editor-in-Chief” now that is real news....no just kidding. The problem with them is these “magazines” are that their open for the whole world and beyond to see them, next thing you know a ten year old is asking “What is sex mommy” which is the last thing you want a ten year old asking, and giving them ideas that being healthy is to not eating anything and having a paper thin body like the ones on “magazines”. The only reason that people read them is because they have too much time on their hands. I think that these “magazines” should not be in the front of a store where anyone and their mother can see it and should be placed in the far back and darkest corner of the store under, and be replaced with helpful magazines such as how to be healthy (The non-paper thin edition) and how to have a successful and happy in life. So I hope you can see my view point on these “magazines” are complete rubbish and should be replaced with magazines that have a positive propose and actually help people do something useful such as, How to pay for college and not having to sell an arm and a leg.