A small victory for print journalism

So I'm at the high school basketball conference championship game in our area Friday night. The student section for the school I cover was pretty lively so I was snapping pictures of them cheering and chanting during the pregame. One of the kids looks at me and says, "Don't just put this picture on your Web site. Make sure it gets in the paper."

I nearly cried with joy...

 

Small? I'd say miniscule...

 

I'm sure this is the beginning of a trend in which young people reject the Web and drive the revival of newspapers worldwide.

 

Maybe the kid wanted his grandma to see the photo.

 

Good point. My mother in Vero Beach hasn't been able to keep up with my work for years.

 

Believe it or not, it seems to me that something becomes more legitimate to kids if they see it in the paper rather than the online version of the same story. It might just be that the hard copy is just easier to cut out for their scrap book or whatever, but maybe there's something to be said for the legitimacy the printed product still has in communities.
Then again, maybe I'm grasping at straws, too.

 

There's limited space in a newspaper, so getting into it is more difficult.

 

You're right. Grandmas still make scrapbooks for their grandkids. When granny dies we're in trouble!

 

You can put anything on the Interwebs. When it's in printed form, everyone's guaranteed to see it.

Believe it or not, this whole Internet newspaper thing just hasn't taken off yet with a lot of people.

 

This "small victory" is the very definition of hyperlocal.

Put a picture of or story about ME in your paper and I might buy it. Otherwise, see ya!

 

He only said that because he's not smart enough to work a printer.

 

I doubt very serious the kid realizes this.