BARBS

One of the funniest bits in recent memory had The Daily Show’s Jason Jones visiting the New York Times, and challenging Assistant Managing Editor Rick Berke to show him “one thing in [the paper] that happened today.”

The heart of the bit, of course, is that newspapers — emphasis on paper – are dead. Old. Yesterday’s news.

Perhaps they are, and there are certainly plenty of examples to prove the point, and observers smarter than I am to outline the argument. That said, however, I was thinking today about why it is that, for now, as much news as I consume online these days, I do not (yet?) want to let my hard-copy subscriptions go. And what I realized is, it boils down to rituals.

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