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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.
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