Hey! Get Away From that Web Page!

What do you get when you mix the most revolutionary advancement of the modern age with a curious, innocent child? You get the questions, concerns and even outrage that only the internet can bring. These effects are compounded by the fact that today’s children have access to material they never had before. How do we handle the inevitable difficulties of children viewing material they shouldn’t? It’s a stressful subject for any parent, teacher or librarian. The problem isn’t as bleak as some would portray it, though.

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It very well might. In fact, I’ll be so bold as to say that any publication that doesn’t adapt to the internet is doomed to fail. This time we live in is one of rapid change. After all, this is the ‘Information Age,’ isn’t it? We’re turning out this information stuff at a record pace – data, ideas and news all flood to us from a myriad of sources. There was a time when you had to choose between your local paper, radio or television for your daily news. Now you can cover the top stories from 3 or 4 different sources in ten minutes. That’s information. All that information has to come from somewhere, though. Someone has to write it, someone else edit it, post it, respond to the emails about it, host it and so on. All of those people want to be paid, too. Yet, we get to read that article for free. Unless we suddenly overthrow our government and implement some form of socialism, that imbalance doesn’t work out so well. It doesn’t work very well right now, truthfully. There will come a time, and it’s not far away, where the circulation of traditional newspapers will become uncommon. Why wouldn’t it? Why pay for something you can get for free? That’s the very issue the recording industry is dealing with. People flocked to the internet to download music causing CD sales to suffer. People started downloading pre-release movies and stopped going to opening nights. The same is happening with newspapers.

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