I was chatting to a journalist I met during work experience today via email. It was at that point that I realised I'd been sitting at my computer for over two hours. Chatting, searching for assignment matterial, snooping at photos, reading status updates and so on. My journalist friend and I were talking about online news when it also dorned on me that within these couple of hours I had not once checked the news. However, this morning, over my weetbix, I had skimmed the headlines in the local newspaper and I will be expecting the Sydney Morning Herald on my doorstep tomorrow morning.
For a young, computer-savvy person who has never used the shut-down button on my pink laptop, I am pretty old-fashioned when it comes to my news. One of the reasons, I have realised, is because I want a career in the print journalism industry and I am subconsciosly supporting it thorugh my news habits.
I work at my local Woolworths store Saturday and Sunday mornings. It pleases me to see people buying the paper with their breakfast supplies. I have on occasion rewarded those who bought the spreadsheets with a now-forbidded plastic bag. But with Murdoch now profitting from online news, I better buy another three subscriptions and reward newspaper buyers with more than just a eco-unfriendly gift!!
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