Ink Stained Fingers

BNET’s blog (a great resource, in case you don’t know it) reports today that “The C-Level Isn’t Reading Newspapers Anymore: They’re on the Web.”

I vote we call a moratorium on any more stories, studies or research on the imminent demise of print media. Not because it isn’t true, but because I love newspapers. Always have; always will. I actually get excited opening-up my fresh copy of The New York Times and The Boston Globe every morning (although don’t get me started on what I think of the Globe these days. I read it because I have to). I love the local and regional papers when I’m traveling, and the only reason I “read” The Wall Street Journal online is because a person can only recycle so many tons of newsprint.

Loving newspapers means loving to read, giving yourself the gift of time to read, seeing reading as a vital ingredient to your day and your life. Internet reading is not real reading — it’s a quick hit, a scan for need-to-know information.  It’s a lot of (useful) things, but just don’t call it reading.

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