Old News

 

I had a reason to buy a copy of the New York Times over the weekend. 

The last time I bought a newspaper was over ten years ago when I used to play a game with Lisa to clip coupons and then add the savings to our vacation fund.  It was not a game we played for very long.

I brought the newspaper and showed Grant who was in total amazement. He had never seen -or at least comprehended what he was looking at - a print newspaper.  The New York Times. 

The New York Times - all the news fit to print - one of the longest-running newspapers in the country. Domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews - a testament to journalism and the First Amendment. With a million hard copies in print and millions of digital copies online, the Times the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. 

Grant seemed genuinely fascinated by the paper. He started an article "above the fold" on the front page and learned he had to go hunt the rest of the story on page A13. When he opened the paper, all of the sections fell to the ground and he exclaimed, "why don't they staple this together?!"  

Grant is very up on current events and the way of the world. It suits him to know what's going on and even have an opinion about it.  He gets his news from Tik Tok(?), Instagram (?), CNN(?).  Quite frankly, I have no idea where his generation gets their news.  At 14, he is an old soul who listens to The Eagles, AC/DC, and Rush in addition to Kendrick Lamar and the current music scene.  Nevertheless, he said, "all this is news?!" as he pulled apart the various sections and then promptly put the whole thing down and left the room withhis phone in hand.

Analog news. A dying medium in the 21st Century.