Firstly, the Internet provides the most updated news to the audience while the print media provides more detailed information about the news. Generally speaking, the version of the Internet news is not as details as the newspaper one. For example, the whole stories often do not exist for BBC news website unless they have already speared in print. In common with most news-based websites, stories on BBC tend to be shorter than those in newspapers. The news stories rarely take up more than ‘ two screens’ and they are almost all one sentence per par. The web journalists always break the news in very short sentences. This is related to the people who usually scan but don’t read the screen. In fact, people generally do not want to read long linear sections of material for enjoyment. Some readers may even print out the online material while reading from the computer screens is approximately 25 per sent slower than from paper. A significant number of readers scan the web pages rather then read them in details. Thus the web journalists should break the news in short in order to make audience more enjoy the story. It makes the information that Internet provides is shorter than the newspaper although the capacity of website is large.
Due to the shorter information that Internet news provides, the newspaper can provides a better quality journalism while it has more information about the stories thus more analysis to be included in the content. Internet news emphasizes on the immediacy, web journalists always put the information straight forward as soon as possible. On the other hand, the newspaper journalists may have more time to do analysis for the news so the quality of journalism would be definitely better.
Besides the quality of the news content, newspaper and print media are much more convenient to use than the web. While the broadsheet size newspaper is never going to be as good as either a book or glossy magazine, it is still much better than that of a computer, where the readers are typically sitting an arm’s length from their screens. Computer is too cumbersome despite the availability of portable computers and wireless connections. Newspapers and print media are more convenient then the web in this case. Also, not many people have the ‘ web habit’ since now, but people still read the newspaper as a daily habit. Reading news online is a difference experience to reading the newspaper. Scrolling down a computer screen to read a piece of text lacks the visceral pleasure associated with turning the pages of a broadsheet or a tabloid. It shows that people may be more enjoyable to read the news from newspaper rather than from the websites.
Meanwhile, some information from the Internet may be wrong because they may come from the anonymous source, which have not been collated yet. Compare to the newspaper, the information are filtered through the professional journalists. When writing a newspaper, journalists have to evolved the story and go into it few times in a day. It’s easier to make sure the credibility of the information than the web while Internet news always faces the immediately pressure thus the time for fact checking would be less...
