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Every morning, when I sit down at breakfast, there is a newspaper on the table. If I'm in a rush, perhaps I'll just read the headlines or the first couple of lines of an article. If I have more time, I will flick through and read what interests me. There is no way, in my current situation at least, that I would sat down to breakfast with a computer in front of me to read the morning's news.

Every day on the tube, there are hundreds of suits and ties, packed in tightly together, engrossed in a newspaper just millimeters from their face. Maybe it's a free London Lite,' but it's a newspaper all the same. They read religiously, despite the jerking motion of the train, the chugging, rattling noises and the too close for comfort company that they are forced to share with their fellow passengers. It's a tradition I don't see changing.

The Internet is a massive resource and at times it is no doubt more convenient to look things up there, rather than scouring a newspaper searching for the article you want; but technology can't kill everything and I think the newspaper as a long life ahead of it.

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