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Time to cancel the newspapers   

I have decided that I am going to cancel my newspapers. I have the FT/Guardian and The Observer delivered. But why do I need them? First of all there is all that paper to deal with! Is it environmentally acceptable to be knocking off all those trees. And do they have anything to say that I cannot find for free online? No I don't think so. Besides a lot of the coverage is starting to look jaded. Take Mondays for example. Most papers carry the football which happened on Saturday on Monday as if it only just happened! Why? By Monday I have read about it online, I could have seen it on TV, I can watch videos online etc etc. Newspaper sites are getting better. So why bother with the restricted paper versions which have no links, no opportunities to comment etc?

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Published Feb 23 2009, 08:59 PM by Justin Hunt
 

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John Gallen
  February 24, 2009

I guess there'll be no lazing on the couch on Sunday reading The Observer for you then. You will miss it, you know. Lieing in that unhealthy, back twisting, slouched manner rather than bolt up right infront of a screen. And if you do manage to get to the couch what are you going to do when your (or a friends) three year old careers across the sitting room sending a fizzy drink in slow-mo over your shiny new fully recyclable mac. You won't be saying 'it's nothing, paper's wet, no big deal' ....hey? I'm sticking to the couch, the paper and the walk to the shops to get same on a Sunday morning  :)

Justin Hunt
  February 24, 2009

John, I don't think I will. I think it will be like starting again in a new culture. Something fresh. When did you ever read anything in the Observer which you remembered by Monday?

John Gallen
  February 24, 2009

I will admit to having already dropped one Sunday paper that I now read online on Monday at work - it's a work related paper. But I do like a sitting room with a messy newspapered floor on a Sunday. I'll keep the old along with the new for now...

Matthew Parker
  March 2, 2009

So online is more environmentally acceptable?  Does anyone know the true carbon footprint of the internet?  I heard you could boil two cups of tea with the energy used for a google search.  And then there's all those massive power hungry servers that need to be recycled.  European paper companies are one of the most sustainable businesses around.

Online is quicker, but do you really want to sit and read in depth analysis (as opposed to quick headlines) on a computer?  

Matthew PArker

www.printandprocurement.com

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