Agree.
You know what really bothers me? Everything becoming electronic and digitized.
Who doesn’t thrill to see the old headlines, the front pages, the clippings of the grandparents’ wedding announcement, the old photos with long-gone faces staring through the years?
We’re losing that. Sure, we can save to disk, but will anyone be able to see what we’ve left in 100 years?
And what if true disaster strikes? An attack on our electricity grids, an EMP attack. armed rebellion. No internet, the airwaves silenced — how will we communicate?
Better save some of those old presses. My hope is that the smaller community newspapers survive to record our history and to keep us in touch if we face nationwide crisis in the future.
One of the best things here on FR are the daily posts of the New York Times, 70 years ago as World War II was beginning.
Just reading the quality of the journalism from those old newspapers, despite perhaps some of the editorial leanings they may have had, shows just how much the craft of journalism has fallen since those days.