1. What kinds of stories, topics, or issues are not being covered well by mainstream papers?
I know it is rather cliche and pretty typical but feel-good stories are never typically in the papers. The papers attract people because of the dark, grueling and sad stories it portrays so often, nationally and internationally. Generally one will see the headlines talking about some natural disaster, terrorist attack, lack of oil or how poor the economy is. I am not saying that these things do not need to be reported because they most certainly do but so do the good things that happen. It would raise national moral and possibly inspire people want to do better things. Mainstream papers could reach the whole nation and just like it is disappointing to hear bad news it is inspiring to hear good news.
5. Will blogs and other Internet news services eventually replace newspapers? Explain your response.
I do not think that newspapers will ever get replaced, at least not by something electronic. There are far too many stipulations that are required to read things on the Internet. Not everybody has such accessibility or think it is just too much trouble to read things on the Internet. Some people would rather sit down and read a nice paper in the coffee shop and tossing it once they are done rather than carrying around their laptop, connecting to wifi, that you have to pay for sometimes, and reading off a computer screen. Plus there will always be that nostalgic feeling that people will have for newspapers.
