The negative aspects of print newspaper

Most of the time, it is a common phenomenon that you have to pay for a newspaper from a shop if you want to get news. However, internet newspaper unlike print newspaper which updates every morning and you can read the online news freely in your daily life. I think it is one of the most negative points of print newspaper, which almost everyone will agree with.

Also, some opponents of reading print newspaper claim that there are too many pages or sections in a piece of newspaper. To be more precise, when they are reading newspaper they do not like to read some content they are not interested in. Thus, they will skip the pages of some section they do not want to read. On the contrary, when they are browsing the website of an internet newspaper, they can choose whatever articles they want to read and ignore the others. In addition, some people hold the opinions that reading newspaper is a way of wasting time because they are not interested in amounts of rubbish advertisements. They think that recently the advertisement occupies more and more pages on the newspaper. However it has become a common phenomenon that more and more publication choose to use advertisement implantations because they thought it is an inevitable way for common newspaper to make more profit.

Of course, it also can not be ignored that publishing print newspaper will cause the environment pollution. 

You can imagine that how huge the production of use of paper to publish newspaper will be every day. The adverse effect on the environment called paper pollution. It has been estimate that by 2020 paper mills will produce almost 500,000,000 tons of paper and paperboard per year (Pope, K.M, 1999). So it is a serious issue which we should pay more attention to, as well as, recycling the wasted paper or reading internet newspaper will be a good way to product the environment.





Reference: 

Pope, K.M, 1999. paper sludge- waste disposal problem or energy opportunity, available at: <http://www.tappi.org/Bookstore/Technical-Papers/Conference-Papers/1999/ENG99/Paper-Sludge---Waste-Disposal-Problem-or-Energy-Opportunity-1999-Engineering-Conference-Proceedings.aspx>, accessed 10 November 2011