https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2367 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:07:57 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2367 Printed news has an interesting advantage over web-based news when it comes to submitting to someone else’s editorial judgement. I find it’s almost physically impossible to click on an article link that I don’t consider interesting. Yet if I have a magazine like the New Yorker in my hands, I’m far more likely to give every article the benefit of the doubt as I flick through the pages. Instead of making a conscious decision to click on the link in order to read the article, I have to make a conscious decision to skip a few pages to avoid the article. That’s a far healthier dynamic because it expands my world (as you say above). That’s why I’m determined to stick with the printed editions of The Week and the New Yorker.No need to reply!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2366 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:57:20 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2366 Yes, Bobby, that’s how I get a lot of my news today as well. We allow our friends and others we respect to be our “editors” a well.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2365 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:04:45 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2365 I came across this article and chose to read it. It is a very good observation.What happens when we send someone a link to an article we found interesting? They can choose if they click on it or not, but in general, I tend to read articles that my friends personally recommend. Blogs are also recommendations, for example, the “A La Carte” that Challies does. I usually make choices based on what interests me, but I don’t have to. If I make it a habit to read a quantity of articles that other people recommend, I might be able to slightly broaden my worldview.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2364 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:40:29 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2364 I like that solution, Bernard. I’ll have a look…while it lasts.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2363 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:04:37 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2363 One possible solution is The Week. http://www.theweek.com/It‘s a digest of the week’s newspapers. Much less time-consuming than reading a daily paper, therefore more realistic given the competition for our attention in the internet age. And yet it still offers the benefits of submission to someone else’s more rounded view of the world. I find it very helpful and a great source of sermon illustrations.The irony is that it feeds off the daily papers that are going out of business because of alternative news sources – such as The Week!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2362 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:54:03 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/03/15/why-the-daily-is-doomed/#comment-2362 This is such a good observation… I remember pouring over the morning newspaper when my folks had finished with it… for hours, morning tea in hand and the smell of newsprint!!! From the age of being able to read to well through varsity and into academia… reading whatever was placed before me and certainly a view of the world!!! Now I spend just as much time reading news but it is all carefully selected to to satisfy my palate and comes through my rss feed… It is a view of the world, my world… And you are so right I would like it to be a much wider view!!! Thanks for the alert… now we need a solution!!!

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