Sunday, January 21, 2007

ONLINE WRITING versus NEWSPAPER JOURNALISM

There are some differences when we talk about online writing and newspaper writing.

First, articles online are shorter as compared to the articles in the newspapers. Take for example, the articles in newspapers, you will be reading them for a time, but for online news articles, it would be faster for you to be reading them, since they are written, shortly.


Second, in newspapers, there are many advertisements that you can see all around in one page, but in the online newspapers, you will not see more, because they are grouped into boarders. What I mean is that there is a separation between news pages and advertisement spaces.


Third, it is obvious that reading an online article is more pleasing to the eyes rather than reading a newspaper which will surely make you feel uneasy because of the ink that scatters to the papers and the ink that spills to your fingers.


Finally, I would say that it is really nicer to read an online text rather than a paper text because if you somehow do not understand some part of the article, you could simply type into the search engine and find its meaning, which is a hassle task if you’re in a newspaper scenario.


I hope it will not sound that I am an online newspaper addict.

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