Thanks for your definition of snailpaper!
Thanks for your definition of snailpaper!
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Urban Dictionary
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snailpaper
(n.) - the print edition of the daily newspaper which arrives in the morning on your doorstep with news that is already old and stale by at least 12 hours
"I am sick and tired of reading the snailpaper edition of the New York Times! By the time it arrives, the front page is already old news. I much prefer reading the Times online website with the up-dated news as it happens."
This word was NOT coined by Dan Bloom. It was coined several years ago and has been used in many places already. Urban Dictionary just got wind of it, that's all. The word belongs to the culture at large.
Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to publish it on urbandictionary.com.
It should appear on this page in the next few days:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snailpaper
Urban Dictionary
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snailpaper
(n.) - the print edition of the daily newspaper which arrives in the morning on your doorstep with news that is already old and stale by at least 12 hours
"I am sick and tired of reading the snailpaper edition of the New York Times! By the time it arrives, the front page is already old news. I much prefer reading the Times online website with the up-dated news as it happens."
This word was NOT coined by Dan Bloom. It was coined several years ago and has been used in many places already. Urban Dictionary just got wind of it, that's all. The word belongs to the culture at large.
posted by dan at 8:18 PM
2 Comments:
Well, Danny, you're the official source of a new word, which will no doubt be in the next American Heritage Dictionary (perhaps to your regret). Nonetheless, congratulations. Trust you're recovering apace!
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-see-by-snailpapers-that-newspaper.html
(hat tip to Newspaper Death Watch): SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ITEM BELOW:
NY Times Swallows Paywall Pill
By paul gillin | January 22, 2010 - - Posted in Advertising, Best/Worst, Business News, BusinessModel, Newspapers, OnlineMedia, Paywalls, Snailpapers
***** Dan Bloom has come up with a new word for newspapers. He calls them “snailpapers.” [But] the longtime newspaperman insists this is a term of endearment, not derision. He thinks maybe if newspapers poked more fun at themselves instead of getting all righteously indignant about new media, they would generate more sympathy. More on his blog at
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/
[Dan calls them snailpapers because they arrive at our doorsteps in the morning with news that is already 12 hours late. But he uses the term as a term of endearment, let's be clear about that. Dan loves snailpapers and hopes they never disappear. While he can live with having to SCREEN text on screens, and actually spends half his waking hours online, he much prefers reading newspapers the way they were meant to be read, which is on paper, real paper, smelly and inky and foldable and clippable and tear-outable and underline-able and highlightable and re-read again at night-able and then wrap the fish with them on Saturday.... KIDDING!.....CLICHE!....... but yes, LONG LIVE SNAILPAPERS! It will be a sad day indeed when the human race is down to getting their news on pixelated computer or Kindle or iTablet screens! THAT is not reading, that is screening. YUCK!
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