Taking Paper Out of the News

“Michael Scott- What is the meaning of this? Can you tell us why you are shutting down Scranton and putting 15 people out of work?

Dwight- Well, the branch is no longer financially viable, its simple dollars and cents.
Michael Scott- Yes, but these are employees, sir. These are human beings.
Dwight: Listen, Scott. We’re losing money, okay? It's not a charity. It’s a business and it's a dying business.”

The Dundalk Eagle, Baltimore Sun, New York Times and USA Today will all continue to survive, but we will no longer be seeing them tossed in plastic air sick bags onto our front lawn. With the ever-growing popularity of television and the internet, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are rapidly approaching the days in which we will be so heavily relying on technology that paper will be a thing of the past. So save your newspapers while you can because I guarantee that at some point in your life they will be nothing more than collectibles, relics that collect dust in the hall closet or attic. When is the last time you got a fax? When did you last see an advertisement for Kinkos or Office Depot or Circuit City? From documents to personal mail to our daily news, paper is being used less and less. In fact, I believe that technology is growing so quickly that we will be the generation that will describe the iPhone and other technologically sophisticated devices to our grandkids the same way that our grandparents described the rotary telephone and first televisions to us. We are advancing as a society at such an alarming rate and the traditional newspaper is slowly, but surely, becoming a thing of the past.