An interesting question that arises more and more as society progresses toward the age of technology is: Can internet and newspapers coexist?  The internet has taken on many aspects of newspapers and in some cases, has done a better job of covering news, sports and entertainment more timely and fully. Is internet the newspaper of tomorrow?

The baby boomers are still clinging to the paper medium and, though I belong to the next generation, I am a personal fan of tangible news products.  Newspapers offer something classical when flipping through the pages that the internet cannot offer from its cold, metallic encasement.   As the target audience, we can choose which media outlets to get our information from and, thus, the true power-holder in the media industry is us.

The blurry line that separates this generation from the previous is like the line that separates newspapers and internet.  It is the line where the old meets the new. Each news medium overlaps into the other's territory.  If they were feral cats, the piss stench would reek for miles. It's the nature of the beast when an industry is spread out over many channels.  Internet can take the form of newspapers and provide interactive substance to add the glitz and glam that our generation craves.

The blurry line that separates this generation from the previous is like the line that separates newspapers and internet.  It is the line where the old meets the new.  Newspapers will remain an industry, but they are being forced to change and adapt to compete with the internet.  Many newspapers have created a website that goes with their newspaper.

After taking a rough survey of the random people a college student ran into in a single day, most of the students said they got their news from the internet.  It is a free medium that is updated every second of the day.  It has become a reliable 24-hour service that is more convenient to surf than television, with its annoying HeadOn commercials.

Circulation rates have dropped and people are moving toward the internet trend.  However, don't count newspapers out of the game.  This may be a generation of technology, but many of us are still traditionalists; we enjoy the ink smudges on our fingertips as we sip our coffee in the morning.  Nothing puts more bounce in a person's step than a newspaper rolled underneath their arm.  Something about having a newspaper in one's possession makes that person feel intelligent. You start using words like ubiquitous and existentialism in your conversations.  No, newspapers will be circulating for many more years - at least until the environmentalists have banned the usage of paper.