You can hold it, smell it, crumble it, or tear it, but you cannot transmit it digitally.
Newsprint is handy and easy to access. The machines engaged to produce it are out of the way. With newsprint, readers can touch the news without booting up.
A throwback, newsprint must bend to the rules of physicis. All the news that's fit to print cannot possibly appear in a single issue. A news story must be compressed to fit within the confines of the physical space on the page.
The laws of physics that require newsprint to focus and refine the facts of a story also allow the Internet to overflow with rambling garbage because the space to display information is much expanded. The Internet has more room to fit more information, some of it accurate.
Readers are free, encouraged in a free society, to consult alternative sources of information in the best interests of an informed electorate.
Beware, though. In my experience, the most reliable information is distilled by an editorial process that detects and removes bias and demands complete reporting of relevant facts. For exclusively online publications, this is the exception, not the rule.
We make the most of the newsprint that rolls through our press. We know you do too, which reminds me of another reason why newsprint is better than the Internet: You can't line your garbage can with just digital images; newsprint is required.
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