I could not live without my coffee and my newpaper in the morning - although there is not longer a lot of news on the front page. It is a ritual.

Or - without MSNBC and CNN. I am a political junkie!

True confessions today!

Michelle Vandepass last blog post..Soft Sell - Heart Marketing Podcast

It is a changing world - and we bloggers are at the cutting edge of it. Even scrapbookers!

I bet you did not know how many were out there when you started blogging about it!

You even have me interested. I read all your articles. No action yet. But who knows?

Maybe when I get old which is any minute.

When I go to any other town or city, the first thing I do is buy the local newspaper.

I especially look at the ads in the real estate section. it tells you a lot about what is going on!

This comment of yours is a central part of Michele’s book.

“This shift sounds like great news for people who need to get their stories out for PR purposes! Whereas in 2001, our stories, while inspiring, might have been regulated to the back pages but now it could very well make its way to the front pages (or close to them!”

Interesting you should pick up on it. - She claims that is when the shift started. Instead of concentration on the event - the focus changed to reporting on the survivors and their families.

Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworkers last blog post..True Independence Comes From In-dependence

I enjoyed learning about the shift taking place among the nation’s newspapers from hard news to storytelling features.

This shift sounds like great news for people who need to get their stories out for PR purposes! Whereas in 2001, our stories, while inspiring, might have been regulated to the back pages but now it could very well make its way to the front pages (or close to them!).

It’s an interesting phenoma to watch. I’ll bet the changing of the guard had the media people scratching their heads on ways to keep their newspapers alive now that everything is reported first online and shifted the balance of information power to bloggers and others like them.

The Internet has dramatically changed the reporting landscape. It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next ten years. Will newspapers become obsolete? I doubt it but will its impact lessne more? Probably.

Nice, thought provoking article. I found it immeasurably interesting.

Stephen Hopsons last blog post..You are a Divine Teacher - Whether You or Others Are Aware of It or Not

I hadn’t really paid attention but now I do and Michelle is totally correct.

I think it’s a good thing that newspapers are reinventing their reason for being in the face of the changing world. It’s reinvention that prevents you from becoming a dodo.

“Where newspapers score over more immediate media like TV and the internet is in their ability to provide balanced, well researched articles which include background. The press is also regulated so it may not print any old tale just because someone believes it to be true.”

You are right of course. Unfortunatly, we news junkies want the latest NOW. So as Michele said in her book, that news is a day late (and a dollar short, as they say) by the time it hits the Chicago Tribune!

Too bad. We have to be more discriminating about what we see in print! Or anywhere.