RISI, Inc., a commercial organization that bills itself on line
as “The Leading Information Provider For the Global Forest Products Industry”,
has published a list of seven reasons why printing proved its value in
the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
All seven reasons were collected from comments submitted on line
by residents of the mid-Atlantic United States. Although some of the reasons seem to conflate “news” with
“newspaper” conceptually or overlook the obvious fact that electrical power is
necessary to produce print, I really liked reason number five, consisting of
the following testimonial from New York:
When I
awoke to what looked like a war zone Tuesday [Oct. 30], I thought I was
completely cut off from the outside world - no power, no Internet, no phone, no
battery-operated or hand-cranked radio (since rectified). But when I ventured
outside my apartment building, I spotted a newspaper box with an amazing sight:
that day's edition of the New York Daily News. It had obviously ‘gone to bed'
too early the previous evening to have all the news of the storm, but I eagerly
dug in. At that moment print was clearly the superior technology for conveying
news.
If interested,
you can find the whole list of seven reasons at:
The list was
originally published in Dead Tree Edition, a blog by a magazine-industry
manager who goes by the pseudonym D. Eadward Tree. Mr.
Tree describes his blog as “Insights, analysis, practical advice, and
smart-aleck comments related to the production and distribution of
publications, such as magazines and catalogs, in the United States.”
http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.ca/
