What the Newspapers Say or Not!
By Chris Elliott
As an amateur writer, I have had the pleasure and pride of submitting articles to two newspapers in North Cyprus for publication and seeing many of them published.
There are many reasons that an individual would want to share their thoughts and
Sadly with newspapers it’s unlikely that many are saved unlike books and in my youth newspapers were used to wrap fish and chips to keep them hot when you went to the fish shop. Enter the EU and the newspapers were spared this sad ending and many now have another unhappy ending.
Some would say that it is not ecologically friendly to produce news
With these thoughts in mind I decided I would find another method of both publishing and also preserving news and then I discovered WordPress on the internet and as they say, the rest is history with the birth of http://www.cyprusscene.com.
So is this a lone quest? It seems not as now we are surrounded by mobile phones, tablets, netbooks, compute
A lot of this news is taken from the electronic media source in the first place and published at high prices whereas a lot of internet news is free to access.
I must confess like my parents before me, that I still like to sit with a cup of coffee or tea on a Sunday and read the newspapers but will I one day read this news by electronic media only, we will wait and see.
Further views for our readers to consider.
Newsweek ending print edition, job cuts expected – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs.
Guardian ‘seriously discussing’ end to print edition – Telegraph. Via Twitter Blogs.
End of the Line – Poem sent to Inside Time Newspaper. Via Google search.