Do you read the morning newspaper? Are you a fan of the internet to find out the morning news? Is your newspaper going to fold? No pun intended, but according to this morning’s speaker, Mr. Bill Hendrick, an Atlanta Journal Staff Reporter, ‘hard times’ have hit the print newspaper industry. Buyouts, layoffs, and the collapse of established newspapers are killing the industry.
Adults, 55 years and older, tend to read the daily newspapers. The younger adults prefer the internet to get their news. So the print newspaper industry is having financially hard times and that dictates job layoffs and reduced staffs.
Since 1990, a quarter of all jobs have ‘disappeared’ from the newspaper industry, says Mr. Hendrick. People don’t have time to read full stories or prefer not to read the news in depth. Or simply are not interested in the news.
Young adults prefer the internet, so called ‘light news’ as opposed to reading standard print newspapers. They prefer ‘written sound bites’. Just ‘news bites’ without background.
Hendrick said he’s a 40 year veteran of the print newspaper industry. An ‘old geezer’ as he says, because the news reporters of today are ‘the beautiful people’…young and vibrant men and women who look good on the internet or on television, but report information ‘tidbits’ not fully researched news articles in depth.
The print newspaper industry is slowly dying. People don’t like the news they see and hear on television, so they have a tendency to isolate themselves from the world and not read the news. They want left alone in their own little world. What’s causing this phenomenon? Do you know?
Please keep the wife of club member Ray Nixon in your prayers. His wife Rosemary had surgery this past week. We wish her a speedy recovery.
Board meeting this coming Friday, 7:30 A.M. at J. Christopher’s restaurant on West Peachtree Street. Everyone is welcome. Free parking beneath the building.
Ronni French and Yvonne Conway say ‘basic’ women’s clothing is needed for these ladies to appear in court. Please contact Ronni or Yvonne if you can help.
Rising leaders luncheon coming up May 6th at 12 noon at the ‘Inman Park trolley barn’.
28 students will be in the program next year.
President Sherry Neal has designated the month of May to ‘kick off’ a supply drive for the Young Children Priority One organization, the Genesis Shelter. The shelter needs large diapers, formula [any type], toiletries, bed linens [twin, full, and crib] arts and craft supplies, and any other baby care items. Please bring these items to any meeting in May. We will collect items throughout the month of May, then deliver the items in late May or early June.
This was the 33rd annual Ms. Georgia Nursing Home project the Peachtree-Atlanta Club has co-sponsored. Club coordinator Jerry Hitt has been instrumental for many years in helping with this club project. Ushers this year included: Billy King, Mel Pittman, Charlie Boyd, and Stan Bokoski. (Ask Mel about Ms. Georgia 2008?)
Club member Burt Manning spoke yesterday at the Buckhead Club and did an outstanding job explaining to the business men and women present the mandate of the Fulton County Tax Assessor’s Office. Also in attendance for the interclub were the lovely Ms. Ronni French, the distinguished Mr. Fred Scheer, and Stan Bokoski.
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