Why the newspaper still beats the Amazon Kindle. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine →
Every newspaper you’ve ever read was put together by someone with an opinion about which of the day’s stories was most important. Newspapers convey these opinions through universal, easy-to-understand design conventions—they put important stories on front pages, with the most important ones going higher on the page and getting more space and bigger headlines. You can pick up any page of the paper and—just by reading headlines, subheads, and photo captions—quickly get the gist of several news items.
This is definitely where the internet fails us. Everything is ephemeral. While the medium thrives on rapidness, the delivery of news is usually without context. I don’t care for breaking news, well, I hate the disruption of it. I love the constraints of a newspaper. You get one shot, every day, to deliver an opinionated, summary of the important events from the previous day. I wish more sites would concentrate on less and quality.
