I would argue the other way around Yankeesfan.  The internet is built upon ‘stumbling upon’ (redundant, yes).  While I agree that thumbing through a newspaper has a similar nostalgia to thumbing through a book (rather than that silly newfangled reading machine Amazon sells), I think the argument that coming across a broader range of media in papers than the internet is incorrect.  Just go to Yahoo.com or CBS.com, or whatever outlet you want to read, and you’ll see hundreds of links to articles that would never be shown on the front page of a newspaper…right there on the front page of a site.

If it’s diversity in news topics you need, CNN or other sites absolutely provide that.  The advantage of the internet is that it allows the consumer to customize news that matters to them most.  If you choose to get a liberal intake of media, you are able to do that as well…and with much more ease than a newspaper (and less black fingers).

If it’s quality in journalism you need, then I think this article helps to push that point.  I assure you that getting your sports news from CBS is far from ‘quality’.

I do not disagree, Millsy, just take another way around it by using both sources- perhaps newspaper first, web or blog second, and then google to find out everything.
The internet is far more productive than, say, the local TV news where they spend 25 minutes an hour telling you what they’re going to tell you for the remaining 35 minutes.  If I want the weather I do not wish to listen to teasers that say the full report will be 20 minutes hence when my Yahoo screen will tell me immediately, newspapers will take a minute to thumb through, the radio will have it in 10 minutes or less.
SOME websites come and go in a year, at least newspapers, if indeed on the rocks, have had a several hundred year span.
It’s like anything else, you use what you find most productive and comfortable with, there is so much information that doesn’t draw your interest you have to “edit” somewhere.

Good points, Yankeesfan.  Ah yes…gotta love Fox News:

“Automatic doors at grocery stores…taking limbs and even lives!”

Real segway I heard years ago for DC’s Fox 5 News at 10.

What’s a newspaper?