It's Fucking Paper

In this week’s New Yorker, a columnist criticized AOL CEO Tim Armstrong for only reading the news on the Internet. Of course print publications, like the New Yorker, have a better reputation and track record than the Internet as a whole, but there’s no difference between the New York Times’ printed and online editions. It’s the same articles in different media platforms. I love a printed book and reading it inside McNally Jackson’s, but that doesn’t mean a kindle has less respectable content. It publishes the same fucking words. Intellectuals are attached to paper: the smell, the texture, and the insistence that it contains better work. I love books and think they should live on like a vintage record, but we have to respect online media, too. Let's live in the present, people!