(5-31-2015)

Newspapers and all that jazz have been around for ages. The way a newspaper works is there's a title to an article that is vague, and the five or so paragraphs in the article tell you the dirty details. I know an epidemic that has been plaguing our nation is our lack of reading, especially in the youth. Lately, people haven't even been reading entire newspaper articles. My New York Times app only lets me read 10 free articles a month, so titles are everything in knowing what I should look into. However, most of the time I don't end up reading any of them because the title tells me everything I have to know.

I know, titles can tell you a lot. If the title to an article is "Ireland Legalizes Gay Marriage" that's wonderful, but no one is curious enough anymore to know anymore. Details are going out of style. People think they can get by in life only knowing the title of an article, but that's not how the world works. Only reading titles forces us into smaller and smaller bubbles and eventually we will just suffocate with this terrible lack of knowledge! Colonists didn't decide they wanted freedom in the Revolutionary War by knowing big ideas. They knew the whole story. Journalism is dependent on titles to get people intrigued, not to share the whole story.

Maybe we just don't have the patience for reading anymore. We did learn from some expert readers in the beginning of the semester that even they can't read for extended periods of time anymore because we get distracted too easily. If an article looks too long, why even start it? This also applies to how I feel about all of the media blogs. I will be the first to admit that all the people in this class that I care about, I already can ask their opinion on things, and I don't need to read their entire blog to learn that opinion a second time. I think we all agree when we say no one has read anyone's media blog because they care about their opinion, but because comments are required. Comments are the only thing keeping our media blogs and our class as a whole from falling into complete chaos and separation. 

I promise I won't get offended if no one reads this article either. Who's going to read a post with no title but the date?

Trying to rekindle my love for the paper. Will we ever be how we used to be?