As a new and more powerful media, the Internet shows its great power. It can spread the information more quickly and more easily. It makes the world a small one. By which you can know what is happening in the other part of the world, you can get to know the event happen some minutes ago. You can nearly get everything you need, the events about politics, sports and entertainment and business. Whatever you want you can get it.
Really the Internet changes the media in our daily life also.
Although the Internet shows great power, will the newspaper disappear? We should think over this thing. In my opinion, the newspaper won’t and shouldn’t disappear.
Firstly, the newspaper has a history of 400 years, and it successfully survived in the competition with video and TV, and it may also survive in the battle with Internet.
Secondly, when reading the newspaper, we have the absolute initiative. We can decide when and where to read and we can place us in any posture we like. Besides the technology of Internet is not so good that it still cannot satisfy everyone.
Another reason is that the habits of us people are not easyly changed. We prefer the way and the feelings we read newspaper.
Also the newspaper seems to be much more precise. The editor will check the information carefully to make sure it’s true. But in the Internet anyone can put out some news that we can hardly know what is right and what is wrong, making it impossible for us to tell what is the truth.
Another reason is that the computer cannot be widely spread; there are still many people who cannot afford the computer. And the newspaper seems to be much more economic.
The most important reason is that we can think while reading a newspaper. Many newspapers will publish many passages that are idealistic, and by reading these papers we can think over about many things, about life, society, nature and so on.
I think that the newspaper will surly survive in the 21st century and it will also make some great changes to survive. Just wait and what will happen!