Talking Point: Old Media

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A traditional fountain pen.

When was the last time you picked up an actual, weighty dictionary in your hands and flipped through it to check a spelling? Would it be fair to say that the last time you puzzled over a word it was more likely you directed your mouse to an online dictionary and tapped the word in?

Here's another scenario for you, a band you enjoy have just released a new album. Do you: (a) pop into a high street music shop to purchase the CD, or (b) go online to pay to download it?

Where do you get your daily dosage of news? Do you buy a newspaper in the morning? Or log on to your favourite news site? Have you perhaps noticed a theme forming yet? Books, CDs, newspapers... Does the phrase 'old media' sprung to mind at all? In a world where we have new media coming out of our ears, where almost everything we need can be found at the click of a mouse, can old media survive? We want to know what you think.

  • Do you still use 'old media' regularly?

  • Are news stories about the demise of old media, just a lot of hype?

  • What do you think will never be replaced by new media, reading a book, for example?

  • Do you think there is a place in our world for both and new media?


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