Re: Future of Newspapers

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

I am a newsprint garden writer well ensconced in fogydom, and I am just 
hoping that newspapers outlive me, which seems like a good bet. In fact, I 
have recently discovered that one newspaper is putting my column up on their 
website, and I am mulling whether I should object or even admit that I 
noticed. Sometimes my mulling takes a long time.

But looking at the other side of the electronic revolution in its present 
status ...

While many if not most of my readers have Internet access, I would make an 
onageristic estimate that well over 80 percent of them rarely if ever visit 
gardening websites, except occasionally looking for specific information, 
and do not read blogs. I understand the electronic focus of many on this 
list -- it is an Internet list after all -- but I believe that a huge 
majority of gardeners still get their information from words on paper held 
in their hands over coffee. I think that is especially and overwhelmingly 
true of garden reading that is not seeking particular information or 
solutions. I am not obsolete yet, no matter what my wife says.

D 

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