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"Reading the News Online"

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "Lawyers are big consumers of news: by and large it helps in practice not to be "out of it." And newspapers have likely been the primary source of lawyers' general news at least. As everyone knows, in order to cope with the impact that the loss of advertising to the internet has had, newspapers now offer their news online. But there's a different quality to reading the news online, of course. Most people fix on the difficulty of reading on a screen or on the confusing complexity of the web page, when explaining their preference for paper. Phil Gyford, however, has pointed out what is, for me, a significant difference that explains a lot about my own preference for a newspaper, one I hadn't articulated before. See if it resonates with you..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 14 June 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).