Ever since the late 1990s and early 2000s, the internet has been on the exploding across the world. As a result, the internet has become the new and quicker source of news. Because of this, many believe that the Internet have replaced newspapers, magazines, and other forms of print media. While this is true that newspaper and magazine subscribers have been in lower numbers over the last decade, I do not think that the Internet has completely killed print media.

More people are turning to the internet for news and less towards print, many national newspapers and magazines still publish their stories online. For example the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Time Magazine still have print hard copy versions of their newspapers and magazines. But at the same time they also post their stories to their online websites.

Anyone can read the stories posted to these three news outlets, for a subscription fee. Now at the same time, The New York Times Chicago Tribune and Time Magazine still place those stories in traditional newspaper and magazine formats and still need journalists to write those stories for both the internet and the print versions. Either way, the same people who run the hard copy New York Times and the hard copy Chicago Tribune also run the internet version of those newspapers so no matter which way you read it, they are still making money either way.

Another thing is that there are many small towns all across America, and there are a very large number in the Midwest. In these towns many have a daily newspaper that deals with news in the local area and not on a world wide scale. News such as local events, news about the local schools or businesses, local high school sports teams, as well as local obituaries. Many small town newspapers also don’t have an online issue so they have to turn to the daily newspaper for their source of news.

Because of the online newspapers, many local businesses in the area take out ad space in the local paper as a way to get their business known in the area. And the small town daily newspapers that do have an internet version of their newspaper usually require a subscription to the paper in order to read. Then the newspaper is still making money off of a subscription in the same format if someone would have gotten a print version. Also some may find the feel of a print newspaper or a print magazine to be better than if they read it online.

If print media is being considered “killed” by the internet, then one could also say that the internet is killing television news as well as cable TV and print books. Like print media, many cable news stations like CNN and Fox News also post stories to their websites which people can read as opposed to watching the stories on the news stations. By stating that the internet is killing print media, then you should also make a claim that cable news is dying as well because of the internet.

It could also be compared to the rise in streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu which have rose in popularity and could be considered a decline in cable TV. While I am not stating that either of those mediums are dying, I am stating that neither cable TV nor Television news stations are considered a “dying medium” the same way that print is. There also are not major claims that streaming is ending Cable TV as much as people make claims that the Internet is killing print media.