Monday, December 5, 2011

print or digital?

     Is it surprising that there are still paper clipping services? I'm not sure. Not everything that is published is online--some of it is still printed on paper only. Many online publications are not printed on paper at all, and never were. Some publications are both online and in print ( paper ). If you really wanted to follow a news story or a set of stories, you would need to subscribe to a paper clipping service and an online clipping service, if you wanted to make sure that you had the news from all of the relevant publications. The other option would be checking social media, as people who read the paper-only publications might mention them on social media sites. In the opposite direction, print media often report on what is available online. Confused?  It seems like a hall of mirrors sometimes, each reflecting the other reflection.

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