Having picked up a very old newspaper by chance, dated December 9th 1945, price 2d, the contents were intriguing regarding the news of yesteryear, perhaps had missed some important news...? Casting an eye over the pages, many things appeared interesting ranging from; ‘Cable ship sank without a trace’, ‘The Minister of Works will announce shortly his master plan for the great housing drive’, ‘Talks with Gandhi will take place in the new year’ to ‘the black marketeers are busy with wads of bank notes, tempting the farmers to evade the food regulations’ despite a shortage of Turkeys for Christmas meanwhile. Little change there then... However, as I was scanning these articles I was intrigued to think about how my habit of news consumption has changed.
In my possession are many Internet connected communication gateways that I have signed up to including Twitter feeds, news sights, aggregated content providers etc. This has almost completely replaced the hard paper copy. It is a long time since buying a copy off a news stand, instead, I pick up the ipad or turn on the computer and flick through the titles until something of interest catches my eye, among the aggregated news feeds that have been self-selected.
I ask myself, if I am depriving myself from all those rich serendipitous juxtapositions by selecting what I want to read from a list of self-selected news.
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