“I tend to read the newspaper with scissors,” my mom remarked just now as we talked about the benefits of reading through the paper to see what’s happening in the community.<\/p>\n
My parents are pros when it comes to reading the paper, but I realize that I’m very much an internet kid. I read an article in the paper and find that I miss the reader commentary at the bottom. I get cynical about the corporate ownership of much of Canada’s news media by Canwest. I feel like social media can give me my news and keep me in touch with the community because it’s created and shared collaboratively.<\/p>\n
But somehow whenever I talk to my parents, who live on Vancouver island, they seem to know more about what’s happening in Vancouver than I do. As troubled<\/a> as the news industry is, we rely on the paper as a common ground for information and community involvement. For my mom, the benefit of finding something new and spontaneous in the paper often outweighs the ability to point and click through websites of her own choosing.<\/p>\n