Bringing Print Back Personally

We’ve all heard it. Print is dying. Everyone is reading their news online. I get it. But still, there’s something about reading a newspaper. Maybe it’s the memories from when I was younger and I’d wake up to my father reading Newsday (there you go Long Islanders) at the breakfast table drinking his coffee and eating his bowl of cereal that makes me want to stick with this. He still does it. Maybe it’s my craft of PR that makes me want to appreciate the news media as a whole and not get sucked into JUST online reading. I’ll admit, I can’t remember the last time I read an actual hard copy newspaper. The only reading I do offline are documents I’ve printed to proof read, my monthly subscription to SELF Magazine or other random gossip mags I buy to keep me busy on a commute home to my parents.
Everything I read is online. It’s part of my culture and my job.
To encourage the appreciation of the print newspaper, I’ve decided to start buying the print edition of the New York Times on Sunday. And to encourage others, or just to document for myself, I’m going to post my top three favorite stories from the issue.
Sunday Business: Innovation Should Mean More Jobs, Not Less -Janet Rae Dupree
The stimulus money, he says, is “a wonderful opportunity” to integrate innovative technologies at a far faster pace than would otherwise be possible. “You’d have an economy and society within three to four years that would be a lot better than we have today,” Mr. Atkinson says, “and you’d create a lot of jobs.”
Beyond direct stimulus investments, he supports an initiative being circulated in Silicon Valley that seeks an information technology investment tax credit to foster innovation through the downturn.
-Really timely article, especially after Darren Herman’s news announcement on Friday with Herman Blackbook. Innovation is going to be huge in 2009 as it should be, but we need to keep investment and focus on creating more opportunities and jobs to aide in this.
Sunday Styles: The Socializr -Gregory Dicum
“I’m going to have a chick drink,” said Mr. Abrams, 38, ordering a vanilla Stoli and Coke. “I got it from the ex of an ex-girlfriend. He’s a nerd like me.”
-I love the “Night Out With” articles. I think I secretly have a goal to be featured in this column. (Dear Gregory Dicum—I am fun to go out with. Let me know if you want to come hang out. ANY TIME.
)The fact that this week we go out with a tech startup entrepreneur is just awesome because well, I’m into it.
Arts&Leisure: She’s Really Shy, but That’s a Secret – Melena Ryzik
These are the oversize, wacky-yet-true characters that Ms. Wiig, 35, has used to build an audience as a star of “SNL.” Though her fans recognize the personalities, they may not recognize the actress, who disappears weekly in middle-agedly bad outfits and worse hairpieces. (If you’re waiting for a wig pun, stop.)
-I LOVE Kristen Wiig. With the recent departure of Amy Poehler (another one of my SNL favorites) the article features the many talents of Kristen Wiig and her appeal as an extremely talented female comedian. Her back story is semi-traditional as a waitress, sales girl, etc… plus her Groundling story. For fun, here is a great link to the top 10 Kristen Wiig skits along with the Lawrence Welk show skit that makes me cry with laughter every time I watch it.
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