Newspapers have deadlines. Everyone knows that. Whether you like, dislike, hate, epitomize, ignore, distrust or feel sympathy towards newspapers, you still know about a newspaper deadline. It's like the stock market, in fact the financial section is based on the stock market. In the morning, right when the bell rings at the Bull Market, everyone is ready to sell and analyze. Well, for a newspaper, it's a never-ending cycle. When you wake up, the newspaper is ready with the latest updates. When something worthy of appreciation or condescension appears, the online edition of the newspaper is already reporting it, giving live updates. I understand the notion that newspapers are no longer useful and are sadly out of the times, but I don't see it that way and neither should you. Sure, what once used to be faded yellowing dusty pages are now even older looking as they sit unattended and not cared for in the driving lots of people's homes, but in truth, there is still an aura of care and tradition in them that we should all share. I share this view and hopefully you will too.
Deadlines. I started off this article by mentioning deadlines. That's my favorite part about newspaper, the never-ending, fulfilling satisfaction of getting that article in on time and having a newspaper print whatever you have to say the next moment. When people walk into their newspaper office, they know that someone somewhere has a story they need to share and that it needs to be shared soon. Newspaper deadlines make up a lot of our life. If there needs to be a last minute reaction on a football game before the finals begin, then the article better get out there in time to reach that audience. Or if the presidential election is the next day and something needs to be said to everybody to change their minds on an issue and to determine who gets to lead the American nation for the next four years, then the newspaper is in charge of that. No matter how you spin it, the world kind of runs on the newspaper. While obviously not to the greatest extent possible, since the argument could be made that social media runs the world, newspapers still hold a lost of sway. A lot of social media comments are even based on newspaper articles.
Opinions. Conversations start and end on one person or another's opinion. Conversations, however, don't start unless someone takes the time and care to listen to someone else's opinion first. That's the beauty of newspaper. It's supposed to take a view and look at it from all sides, but be partial to none and when a newspaper achieves this, it starts up conversation on the topic. Simply writing about something and publishing it for the world to see is an accomplishment enough and gets people to start to thinking about the issue or the event. I am in awe of talented writers who are able to present an issue in a light that gets people talking about it. As a fellow writer who aspires to be intellectual and honest at all times, I feel an affinity towards any sort of attempt at writing for the mass public. A newspaper provides for a positive writing aura, one that welcomes different opinions that are drawn from the writing pieces published.
I run the newspaper club at my school along with my co-editor-in-chief, also my friend. Last year, we worked our minds and bodies to the bone in order to finish a newspaper on time. We tried for style and finesse. We tried for opinion-based and non-opinion-based articles. We tried for art and pictures. We tried to get it out on time. And the satisfaction this simple act of puclishing the paper gave us was good enough to lift me to the moon. I feel a deep connection for newspapers around the world. They try their hardest to present to the people of the world all different sorts of situations and events and what can be done about them. Whether it is on the paper edition or online, newspapers have an everlasting aura that makes it easy for them to be liked. Our lives are fortunately, or unfortunately, run by deadlines and opinions. The newspaper incorporates them both into one job. Maybe they are somewhat outdated, but two things we all must learn make up this one big thing. So maybe it's worth preserving the newspaper if only for their deadlines and opinions.
