Finally, Jim Tucker has started blogging. I say finally because I’ve listened to thoughts coming out of the man’s head for the past month and a bit and thought they’d make great blog posts. If only I could write them.
Anyway, blame a rainy Sunday, maybe, but it has happened. Read Jim Tucker’s blog, ‘Tuckr’, here.
He writes in one of his first posts about the habit of reading a newspaper. It’s very, very true — for some people. Some people just love a bit of Sudoku, don’t they?
I started to wonder what my newspaper habit is. I don’t have one. I pick up the paper, skim the news, then put it down. Sometimes, I won’t even get as far as that. I’m perfectly content getting all I need by reading the newspapers respective websites.
Apart from Mondays and Thursdays. Monday for the Guardian’s Media section. Thursday for its Technology. Specialist sections that I know I can only really enjoy when I pick up the print edition, because I want to read at length. I don’t need that with general news.
That is my newspaper habit. What’s yours?
Could more specialist sections be the way forward for newspapers? What is neccessary to recreate the newspaper habit for young people. What do we want?
Do we even want a newspaper habit?
I definitely have a newspaper habit! The local newspaper [which I work for] arrives about 6.30am, and I read it while eating breakfast. I read every story in the local section, then I flick to sport [to read the cricket stories] then I read op-ed and flick through the national and international pages. I know … I’m a creature of habit.
I almost never read news online, unless I’m at work. I get most of my national and international news from the radio.
Thanks for your comment Anne-Marie. Perhaps, though, your media habit is because you’re a journalist?!
I’m a newshound. I will seek out the news, and for that I turn to the best sources. Increasingly, the sources that are best are online.
As for ‘normal’ people (ha…! I mean non-journos), and people who aren’t newshounds, they’re happy to receive the news in whichever way is easiest. Right now, I’d say news needs to be focused to the places where people have habits already. Facebook….!
Hello Dave,
I have been browsing the web looking for a blog/website by Jim Tucker, and came accross this. Unfortunatly when I went to the link the blog was shut down. I am wondering if you know of anything that would help me on my search… Thanks ~T