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

turn

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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

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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

largest selling

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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

seating

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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.