Does Losing Newspaper Readership Mean Losing The Big Picture?
Columnist Georgie Ann Geyer today says America is losing focus on the big picture because they’re simply not reading enough newspapers often enough, or as she puts it, “too many Americans no longer seriously read newspapers, and thus don't have any idea what is happening in the world” (hat tip, Romenesko). More:
My theory is that we Americans have so picked and chosen our news that we have lost that comprehensive view of the world that only a newspaper gives. You may only read a few stories thoroughly, but you are inexorably exposed to ones you don't choose -- labor news in Detroit, deaths in Darfur, economic successes in Finland, a zoning excess in your own community.
Whether you like it or not, all of those headlines and leads stay with you; they wash around your head and force you to be a bigger person than you are -- and to know and react to a world bigger than you are.
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
