While I've enjoyed some success as a blogger, I earn my living working for a daily newspaper. Without newspapers, 99 percent of the bloggers would have no reason to exist.Few blogs publish original material. Most provide links to newspaper articles or comment on stories published in newspapers.
The key is that the information originated from a newspaper.
From an editorial in The Pottstown Mercury:
Last week was Newspaper In Education Week, celebrating the Newspaper Association of America initiative "to reinforce a positive and relevant lifetime reading habit in students by engaging them with an authentic text — the newspaper."Read the full editorial, "Newspapers hold key to unlock ignorance and build community," at the newspaper's Web site.
The theme this year was "Newspapers Now," with a goal of helping students realize that newspapers can have an impact on their lives today.
The emphasis in NIE programs is to demonstrate to students that the newspaper has always been, and remains today, an important resource in people's lives.
Whether reporting on the atmosphere at Owen J. Roberts School Board meetings or the choices a township faces for budget cuts or the warnings from police chiefs that thieves are hitting unlocked cars in your neighborhood, information is power.
Newspapers hold the key to unlock ignorance and inspire change. Read a newspaper and build a community.
See related post, Why Newspapers Matter, Part 1
Originally posted at TONY PHYRILLAS
