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I was lurking at David Tebbut’s blog playing with his Grazr when this piece by Robert X Cringley caught my eye.

You can go read the full article here or click on the blog title below.I just wanted to voice my support for the kernel of the piece which is that we are reading less on blogs than we do with newspapers.

Generally, I read the newest and next post down on a blog, add a comment and then surf on to the next blog or stop there and carry on with work.

They Wrap Fish, Don’t They?:
Internet News Isn’t What It’s All Wrapped Up to Be
By Robert X. Cringely
I can make a fair claim to knowing how news gets spread around on the Internet — not very well. The Internet is, in fact, the idiot savant of journalism — supremely good at a thing or two and not at all good at anything else.
……..a recent study from the University of Notre Dame that says news stories survive on the Web for an average of 36 hours before half of their eventual readers have read them. This is in contrast with traditional print newspapers that — since most are published on a daily basis — are typically read by half their readers in 24 hours or less.
So news lives longer on the Web. Is this good or bad? The news stories about this news study tended to view the result as an oddity, noting that most people expected the half-life of news to actually be shorter on the web than in print, not longer. It’s that speedy electrons thing. But as a columnist I’m actually paid to have opinions and mine in this case is that this news stickiness is bad, very bad, because it means we read less and ultimately learn less than we did in the past.
Oh we think we’re so smart, with our Google News homepages and our online subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal. More and more of us are getting our news from the Internet and that’s hurting newspapers and ultimately hurting us, too, because we are getting less news overall.

What do you think about this? Is it true for you? Does Roberts’s argument deserve a nod of consent?