As the internet becomes more popular, newspapers are becoming a thing of the past. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience

The overwhelming popularity of
internet
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the internet
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means that
every
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information
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is now at people's fingertips, potentially risking traditional informative items like
newspapers
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obsolete.
While
I mostly concur with the idea of digital platforms supplanting physical copies, I would
also
like to acknowledge the fact that there are still many families, and institutions like libraries, who still keep the print reading culture alive.
Internet
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offers wide-ranging services to its customers largely because of its flexibility, accessibility, and arguably infinite space.
This
allows it to cover not only a plethora of ideas ranging from politics, to science, to sports, to culture and
gossips
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, but
also
the immediate breaking news.
Newspapers
,
on the other hand
, can only offer limited stories owing
t0
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to
their fixed daily quota, and are disappointingly rigid to their timeline (who wants to wait a night to learn about a plane crash!), either way failing to cater to the needs of a fast-paced modern individual.
Moreover
, the advent of internet-connected, pocket-sized mobile phones
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made
newspapers
look clumsy and ironically unportable, causing their fall-off among a significant chunk of current readers. A recent report about Kantipur, Nepal's
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national daily, losing 23
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of its subscription past year clearly underscores the print edition's dwindling popularity.
However
,
newspapers
are not yet dinosaurs. There are still members in families who cherish and live to the notion of
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in an armchair skimming through their
favorite
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paper
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while
taking a sip of coffee
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a warm sunny morning;
furthermore
, many inquisitive readers are seen ruminating over the physical copies, sometimes even from the distant past, in well-documented vaults of public libraries; both instances meaning that the paper reading tradition is still breathing. In conclusion,
while
some individuals and institutions still revere and try to preserve the idea of physical
newspapers
, I believe that those versions are precipitously losing their selling points among a significant segment of contemporary readers.
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  • Access
  • Convenient
  • Fast
  • Expensive
  • Wider range
  • News sources
  • Perspectives
  • Readership
  • Demographics
  • Physical
  • Tangible
  • Reading experience
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