In many countries, very few young people read newspapers or follow the news on TV. What do you think are the causes of this? What solutions can you suggest?

Nowadays, reading
newspapers
or watching
news
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on
TV
are less popular than they used to be, especially among young
people
. The reason behind
this
is not because the quality of
newspapers
or
news
on
TV
have
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become worse, but
is
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because the Internet has changed the
way
that
people
obtain
information
. The internet allows
people
to read
news
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anywhere anytime. Unlike
news
on
TV
,
people
can read
news
on their phone whenever they prefer and wherever they are. They can
also
skip any
news
in which they are not interested and only read those which interest them.
This
way
,
people
can obtain
information
more actively compared
with
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following
news
on
TV
.
Moreover
,
news
apps
also
allow
people
to watch video clips if they prefer videos rather than texts.
People
can pause, fast forward or replay at any time.
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is not what
TV
can bring us.
Secondly
,
people
prefer a neat and paperless
way
to obtain
information
. Reading
newspapers
seems to be more flexible than watching
news
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on
TV
, and
people
can obtain
information
actively via
newspapers
as well.
Nevertheless
, compared with a smartphone,
newspapers
physically occupy more space
,
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and
thus
are less convenient to be carried or read somewhere crowded, like on a crowded bus.
Also
, nowadays,
people
prefer everything paperless to save the Earth, while reading
newspapers
is not considered to be as friendly to the environment as reading
news
online. More importantly,
people
can easily search
what
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news
they would be interested
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their phone, while it would be harder to retrieve
information
from
newspapers
. To conclude,
people
now prefer to read
news
on their
phone
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because it is a more convenient and
a
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more environmentally friendly
way
to obtain
information
actively, compared with reading
newspapers
or watching
news
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on
TV
.
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