International ational Snailpapers Day on April 7 hopes to help save print newspapers
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Snailpapers Day hopes to help save print newspapers. April 7
is the day.
Embargoed Until Published: April 6, 2010
For Danny Bloom, longtime newspaperman and lover of all things
newspaperish, April 7 will be what he hopes will become an annual day
of reflection.
That's exactly what he is is trying to promote with the
first annual INTERNational Snailpapers Day on April 7.
The experiment, which begins tomorrow, is the brainchild of Bloom, a
60 year old newspaper fanatic -- who even collects front pages from
around the world-- for whom the day will be a good way to add some
humor and reflection to the issue of where newspapers -- he calls them
snailpapers as a term of endearment, not derision -- are headed.
Bloom said that reading
a print newspaper is vital in today's world.
Organizers hope the day of will draw attention to Bloom's novelty song
titled "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)", now getting
lots of hits at YouTube.
“The topic that was on my mind was whether there was room for an
annual Snailpaper Day within our increasingly hectic lives,” Bloom
said. “I was feeling like, as we were
getting more and more plugged-in, and our interactive experience was
getting richer, there was something that was disappearing as well. We
need to save print newspapers.”
The Snailpaper Statement, [GOOGLE IT], was written to remind people that
print newspapers play a vital role in our lives.
Bloom said the idea of a international Snailpaper Day is very important for
all Americans.
“As a retired newspaper editor and reporter, and as a contemporary
American, never before in my life has there been such an awareness of
the way that technology and contemporary culture have a tug at every
aspect of our being,”he said. “I don’t think we’re aware of the manner
in which technological innovation is changing the way we think and
read, the way we process information, the way we engage in
relationships with meaning." Celebrating international Snailpaper Day is “a
powerful action in the face of a fast-paced way of living,” he added.
Bloom is promoting theday day via (what else?) Twitter, Facebook and
YouTube. But he emphasizes direct personal interaction, for example
going cold turkey with one's Internet news sites and spending the
entire day reading only print newspapers and magazines.
Bloom said he estimated only a few hundred people around the world
would participate in various ways at first, but hoped the publicity
would increase those numbers in coming years. Observers of the day are
being encouraged to share their experiences online at
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-snailpapers-day-hopes-to-help.html
once the day is over.
contact DAN BLOOM danbloom@gmail.com
AVAILABLE For INTERVIEW 24/7 antyime , email me
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-snailpapers-day-hopes-to-help.html
Snailpapers Day hopes to help save print newspapers. April 7
is the day.
Embargoed Until Published: April 6, 2010
For Danny Bloom, longtime newspaperman and lover of all things
newspaperish, April 7 will be what he hopes will become an annual day
of reflection.
That's exactly what he is is trying to promote with the
first annual INTERNational Snailpapers Day on April 7.
The experiment, which begins tomorrow, is the brainchild of Bloom, a
60 year old newspaper fanatic -- who even collects front pages from
around the world-- for whom the day will be a good way to add some
humor and reflection to the issue of where newspapers -- he calls them
snailpapers as a term of endearment, not derision -- are headed.
Bloom said that reading
a print newspaper is vital in today's world.
Organizers hope the day of will draw attention to Bloom's novelty song
titled "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)", now getting
lots of hits at YouTube.
“The topic that was on my mind was whether there was room for an
annual Snailpaper Day within our increasingly hectic lives,” Bloom
said. “I was feeling like, as we were
getting more and more plugged-in, and our interactive experience was
getting richer, there was something that was disappearing as well. We
need to save print newspapers.”
The Snailpaper Statement, [GOOGLE IT], was written to remind people that
print newspapers play a vital role in our lives.
Bloom said the idea of a international Snailpaper Day is very important for
all Americans.
“As a retired newspaper editor and reporter, and as a contemporary
American, never before in my life has there been such an awareness of
the way that technology and contemporary culture have a tug at every
aspect of our being,”he said. “I don’t think we’re aware of the manner
in which technological innovation is changing the way we think and
read, the way we process information, the way we engage in
relationships with meaning." Celebrating international Snailpaper Day is “a
powerful action in the face of a fast-paced way of living,” he added.
Bloom is promoting theday day via (what else?) Twitter, Facebook and
YouTube. But he emphasizes direct personal interaction, for example
going cold turkey with one's Internet news sites and spending the
entire day reading only print newspapers and magazines.
Bloom said he estimated only a few hundred people around the world
would participate in various ways at first, but hoped the publicity
would increase those numbers in coming years. Observers of the day are
being encouraged to share their experiences online at
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-snailpapers-day-hopes-to-help.html
once the day is over.
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