Posts Tagged ‘habit’

Could the newspaper habit be dying out?

June 29th, 2008

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?