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| Stacked London, ON April 2022 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
The smell of the newsprint, the ink-stained fingers, the heft of a Saturday or Sunday paper as it hits the doorstep, the sounds of sections being shared across the kitchen table, the folding and refolding as the family settles into its morning routine.
Electronic devices may be more efficient and timely. Forests don’t have to be sacrificed at the altar of the morning news, and dinosaurs don’t get burned on the truck ride to the neighborhood. No more spending time on hold waiting to lodge yet another complaint over missed delivery.
But no smartphone or tablet is ever this visceral, this tangible. Scrolling through articles on a touchscreen just doesn’t touch the soul in quite the same way. The shared experience of conventional news is lost in a world that cherishes multimedia and multiplatform. Multianything, really.
I get it: we’ve advanced as a species. Today’s solutions are better than yesterday’s. We don’t so much read articles as we consume content, as we interact with it and turn it into something those who built it never envisioned.
But as is so often the case, we’ve left something behind in the process.
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