Not so long ago, I would get newspapers delivered to my home, and it would be a daily pleasure to learn what is happening around me. Sunday morning with a coffee reading La Presse was a real treat every weekend. I was paying for information, and I enjoyed it. It wasted a lot of paper, but that was long ago…
For more than a decade, I switched to online news, paperless and free. Intermittently, I paid for news, but most of the time, I kept returning to free news. Why pay for news when we can get free information online?
What seems like a good idea in the short term can have unintended consequences.
Recently, I have been disappointed with free news. I don’t enjoy reading the news as much as I did because the quality has decreased, and part of me feels responsible. I feel that I/we let down the people who used to work to inform us.
Now, we are fed a diet of free news that feels like fast food for our brains, tasty but not nourishing.
More than ever, quality information has a price.
I need to be informed about what is happening, not in the world, but in my neighbourhood and city. Gatineau is where I live, not the internet.
I have just subscribed to my local newspaper, Le Droit.
If we want local news, we need to support our local newspaper.
Invest in information,
Support journalism.
Information has a price; choose to pay it, it’s important.
Thanks for sharing.
Martin Pham Dinh 