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The Nose: Oprah's Gone; Loving the Physical Newspaper

Connecticut Public Radio | By Colin McEnroe
Published May 27, 2011 at 2:27 PM EDT
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This week a feud erupted between Hartford courant columnist and blogger Rick Green and Frank Harris, a Courant columnist and chairman of the journalism department at Southern Connecticut State University. 

Harris revealed that he had just begun re-subscribing to the Courant after a year or so of not. 
 
Green smacked him online for not getting the newspaper while chairing a journalism department. And not paying for news he consumes. 
 
Harris smacked back. He said his students are being prepared for multi-platform careers. Newspapers are like leather-soled shoes, he said, on their way out but worthy of our sentimental attachment.
 
Underlying this argument is an even better question: Do we choose and absorb news differently depending upon our mode of reading it?
 
Absolutely, we do. Reading a physical newspaper, turning pages, leads you to news you wouldn't otherwise find. 
 
Leave your comments below, e-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.
Colin McEnroe
Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.
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