Usually writing for newspapers the day after elections is difficult for European journalists. With the time change, it has been impossible to have the United States' new president elect on European newspaper covers on November 5th. Much creativity has been needed every year to develop an article that is still interesting the day after the election since they cannot give the actual outcome. However, this year a Danish paper, Politiken, fixed the problem of which candidate to place on the front page, by simply placing bold, red text, reading, "Go to http://www.politiken.dk/." This website contains the results of the election for the curious Danish reader.
Not only is this a clever idea from the Politiken journalist, but also it reflects aspects of the culture we live in. Ernst Poulsen, at Poynter Online, in regard to this newspaper, notes that it has taken years for newspaper editors to allow the "www" logo to appear occasionally in publication, and now today it’s making headlines.
It makes sense to me that editors and newspaper administrators wouldn’t want websites publicized in their papers. It would seem logical that if you can get news online, you’re less likely to also want news in a tangible, paper-form; therefore bringing less demand for papers. But with the internet still growing and references to websites occuring in almost every form of print media, could print media be next in becoming extinct in the media world?
How soon are we creating and popularizing new forms of media, while older forms have no defaults? Is it necessary to get a new cell phone every six months if your previous one isn't broke? Will children in the next few generations be learning how to read from a computer screen? The crazy thing is that these ideas don't seem that far off.
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