Although more and more people read news on the internet, newspapers will remain the most important source of news. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.

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Internet is considered to be one of the most effective
medium
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mediums
for reading news for a majority of
people
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people, however
however
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newspaper has mostly been the crucial way of reading the news for an ample amount of people. In my opinion, newspapers are an
irreplacable
impossible to replace
irreplaceable
source of providing news because they have been able to reach a wide range of people where it is in rural areas or urban areas.
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The Digital Age is all about technology and switching from physical to virtual.
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why plethora of people prefer to read news via the internet yet they have not been able to provide the information in the most systematic manner because of which newspapers have always outperformed the digital medium of news by the widespread of
accessibility
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access
accessible
to every home.
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, they have the potential to cater to a
humungous
(used informally) very large
humongous
amount of readers through their wide network and the trust, loyalty, reliability and dependence of their audience
on
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for
with
them which the digital medium has not been able to do till date.
This
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is because the newspapers have been
into
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in
existence
since
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for
so many
years whereas
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years, whereas
the internet has been not able to make a mark as they have been introduced only a few years ago. Internet or the digital source of news
also
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lags way behind the newspapers because of their
inavailability
the quality of not being available when needed
unavailability
in low key areas and small towns and cities. Even though
internet
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the internet
has the potential to reach more people in less amount of
time but
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time, but
still a lot of improvement is required so as to make it a viable option to provide news to the masses. Newspaper
on the other hand
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is already established and has been successful in
this
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fast-paced digital era to be able to fulfil the demands of the readers. People who are not tech-savvy or technologically advanced or technologically illiterate
also
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feel a great deal of burden on their shoulders to get access to the latest news and
this
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is why they opt for newspapers. T
o recapitual
summarize briefly
recapitulate
te, newspapers are easily available and most reliable source of reading news for all sections of th
e society
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society, be
be it rich or poor, young or old, black or white, people in villages or the people in metropolitans

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • reliable
  • credible
  • focused
  • immersive
  • tangibility
  • tradition
  • access
  • digital devices
  • demographics
  • older generation
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