The Importance Of Print Media

Allow me to pose a question: where do you live? A second question, do you live in the suburb, rural area, or the metropolitan area? The third question, where and how do you get news and information the most? The answers of all these questions affect your point of view on answering the title of this article. Print media generally refers newspaper, magazine and other paper-bound reading materials which aim to disseminate information. Today in 2016, with the advancement of technology, digital media are soaring and gaining audience. It is incontrovertibly multidimensional and more engaging – video, livestream, immediate high quality-pictures. Yet, proven by substantial statistics, print is currently holding a vital role in media consumption in

In the 2010 [Swedish] election campaign, some issues dominated the debates more than others.

Although any side of the media could attempt its best to main their objectivity and content equivalency, it is inevitable that media productions are catered to their target audience, especially after statistics show that digital media-consumer and print media-consumer perceived the same source differently. Print media in this case stand a great importance in creating media diversity and provide another content outlet for those who are in favor for. Print media are steadily declining in North America and Europe actuality, but also “flourishing” elsewhere in reality. Researchers Nossek, Adoni and Nimrod referenced statistics from Media Displacement Effect research that shows the increase in number of print media in India and some East Asian areas. Researchers believed that it is caused by the low and slow penetration of technology and internet services in some but still valuable districts. It shows the bias for media-consumers to believe that print journalism is obsolete and perhaps “wasting natural resources.” In today’s ever-changing world, public education and democracy are increasing in value and also being promoted. Different social movements discourage discrimination, social injustice and illiteracy around the globe. Print journalism and media play an important role in disseminating and storing history and useful information for those who are not inaccessible to the internet or beginning to connect to the world server. Print therefore is although antiquated but still precious to