Daily news? Print or electronic version? Hard question indeed. Usually I
listen to TV (not watching it), at the same time browsing the Internet sites,
Twitter, for instance. Nevertheless, I would prefer to get a newspaper in the
morning - freshly from print, with nice aroma. I would love to. Though we live
at the electronic age,I would prefer snail mail (not e-mail), paperback (not
e-book), and newspaper (not the Internet news). It must be admitted: electronic
news are more effective and therefore more real, more vivid news than
newspapers. BUT. I am longing for the good old times when you could read your
newspaper while drinking coffee. I loved the big sheet newspapers, and was happy
to see large newspapers in Paris, and Frenchmen and Frenchwomen sitting with a
newspaper in their hands, or put on a cafe table. An old man in the park avidly
reading big leafed newspaper, something genuine, from older (and not worse at
all) times. My only newspaper, on small sheets of paper (once they were large,
and not so long ago) usually comes early in the morning, but I don't read it
sipping my black coffee. No, I am not a person of my dreams. I am the Internet
addict, I am electronic news' eater. I don't like this at all, but I give in,
just because the hasty Age demands that. You run God know what for, you are in
haste, always and everywhere, You cannot sit at one place, you must run, run,
run. Why? Why we, humans, have become so nervous and hasty, so impatient and
impolite? Is it some kind of plague that has come over us and makes us all like
that?
I know poets who write by hand and later retype. I suspect they prefer
newspapers over electronic news, like I do. Newspaper news though often rather
rumours than news, are more reliable. It seems so. To some people. And I belong
to this kind of people. Though, nowadays, I translate and write on my computer
and cannot imagine myself writing and then retyping. Loss of time. Time again.
TIME. What has it done to us? Turned all the Globe into a hasty, nervously
pulsating formation. And we, like tiny ants, are running and toiling. Always in
haste. Having no time for a talk, only for emails, having no time for the
traditional, printed newspaper, only the hasty, crazy electronic news. What a
pity. I am for printed news, I am for traditional newspapers on large
sheets!
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