Get together with your conversation group and discuss the questions below.
What is your favorite way to get news?
What kind of news are you looking for?
Are you most interested in sports, entertainment and culture, politics, science and health, style and fashion, business, local news about your community or national or world news?
Has this changed over the course of time for you or for your family?
Do you read a newspaper regularly?
If so, do you read it on paper, online or both?
Do you ever turn to social networking sites to get news?
If your local paper stopped printing daily editions, what effect do you think this have on you, your family and the community as a whole? Why?
Do you think the reduction in the number of newspapers that are printed around the country each day is a sign of our digital times, or an indicator that people don’t follow the news as closely today as they did in previous generations? Why?
In preparation, you can also read the NYT article The Undoing of the Daily by Christine Haughney, who talks about recent changes in the media landscape.
Ted Rhodes/Calgary Herald
