The Nose: Oprah's Gone & Loving The Physical Newspaper
These two topics aren't necessarily related.
Published: May 27, 2011
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The Nose: Oprah's Gone & Loving The Physical Newspaper
This week a feud erupted between Hartford courant columnist and blogger Rick Green and Frank Harris, a Courant columnist and chairman of the journalism department at Southern Connecticut State University.
Harris revealed that he had just begun re-subscribing to the Courant after a year or so of not.
Green smacked him online for not getting the newspaper while chairing a journalism department. And not paying for news he consumes.
Harris smacked back. He said his students are being prepared for multi-platform careers. Newspapers are like leather-soled shoes, he said, on their way out but worthy of our sentimental attachment.
Underlying this argument is an even better question: Do we choose and absorb news differently depending upon our mode of reading it?
Absolutely, we do. Reading a physical newspaper, turning pages, leads you to news you wouldn't otherwise find.
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E-mail from Meg
Hello Colin - listening to today's show, and thought I'd write as a non-Oprah watching, non-newspaper reading at-home mom . . . I confess that my primary news and entertainment source is NPR - and, with two small kids, I cannot imagine where I'd find the time to watch T.V. or read the paper, neither of which I could do while cooking or washing the dishes, or folding clothes, or . . . Maybe while nursing the baby . . . but then I'm often reading "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" or other classic literature to my two year old.
All that to say - thank you for being a part of what keeps me informed and able to have adult conversations! And have a good Memorial Day Weekend,
E-mail from P.K. On Oprah
Could Barack Obama have been elected without Oprah leading the way?
E-mail from Tony
Personally, I'd prefer the emphasis on the 6, as in 8-6-0...but whatta I know?
BTW, the only Oprah show I ever watched (I must have been in bed, delirious or something), told us everything we ever wanted to know about ... our stools!!! Nice to know that an S-shape is the goal, and that, normally, gravity takes care of everything. I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP!!!
E-mail from Jim
I, for one, enjoy the way you say, "You may TWEET us."
I am one of those who wrote in missing Chion's original W's.
AAAANNNNDDDD, I would empty my bank account and send it all to you if I could hear Chion say "Shuttlecock" on the air just one more time.
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