Is the decline of traditional paper media an inevitable trend?

The decline of traditional paper media is not an inevitable trend.

Today, when the bad news of the paper media keeps coming, there is something wrong with the paper media, and it is a big problem. The essence of the problem is that capital invades too much, so that the paper media is too commercialized. Thought and culture are diluted by excess pulp, and the dignity of thought and culture is submerged by money and figures. Books that have not reached the academic level are published in large numbers, and information with no value and significance is everywhere. In the endless process of commercialization, the paper media has destroyed itself. Victor Nawaski, a journalism professor at Columbia University in the United States, analyzed that Newsweek was in trouble not because it stuck to the old news traditions and founding purposes, but because it abandoned these traditions and purposes in its heyday. Newsweek's "death" has no reason to let the whole paper media "be buried".

The historical characteristics of paper media and human spiritual thoughts, as well as the inherent natural defects of emerging online media, are doomed to the fact that traditional paper media and emerging online media are not simple substitutes. The emerging online media not only embodies its advantages of immediacy, interactivity and convenience, but also deeply exposes its negative characteristics such as "overload", fragmentation and lack of authority. Therefore, Nicholas Carr, the author of Shallow, said, "If we use the Internet instead of memory, … we will risk being hollowed out". This is not an alarmist.

Finally, traditional paper media will not die because of the rise of the Internet, which does not mean that traditional media can sit on the Diaoyutai of the bright moon. On the contrary, the traditional paper media at this time, in particular, should seek change and innovation, stick to their own history and commitment, and strive for their own responsibilities and ideals, so as to be truly invincible.