Print vs electronic media (micro blogs)

Man! What are we even debating? Electronic is so much bigger and better than print. There’s no fight at all from print. If this is what you believe then you are wrong my friend.

Electronic media (keeping aside television) is really small as compared to print. Internet media houses are still coming up. We still don’t have an internet media house as big as AAJ TAK (India Today Network).

Talking about print, it is really big. In India, even today, majority of the people get their news from the early morning newspaper. Agree, smartphones have penetrated deep into indian households. But they are primarily used for sending out good morning messages.

The news that people get on their smartphones are through WhatsApp forwards. This is scary. This makes it so much easier to propagate a lie. A lot more convenient for people to spread rumours.

Electronic media will sure make news more accessible. But what it will also do is make news more fakable. This decreases the trust worthiness of news we find on the internet. Especially WhatsApp.

I’m not saying that a news printed on a paper can’t be fake. It’s just that it has wayyy lesser chances of being fake.

So electronic media is the future but don’t unsubscribe to your daily morning newspaper. It is still more trustworthy than the internet.

-ChoubeySahab