Reading Newspaper Articles

UNIT-IV

10. READING NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Sometimes Newspaper article collecting hobby is a useful and economical hobby. internet fails to provide information what you seek. Newspapers give information in detail at the moment of incidents. If the relevant information from newspaper is stored well, stuck on a chart paper, or preserved in folders, or stuck in an album or important articles being laminated, they can be used for future reference. Many schools, colleges and offices maintain file to preserve the newspaper articles regarding their information published in dailies. The children can develop the habit of collecting information from newspapers. When you see your collection after some years, it will be worth reading again. One can assess one change of tastes over the years. The date should be written on the clipped newspaper articles for reference. If one pays subscription for six months or one year for a newspaper, one can collect materials on various topics such as politics, education, sports, cinema, academics, job vacancies, weather reports, social issues, special news....By reading newspaper articles, one can improve one's knowledge of English. By reading and reading, one can learn to write for newspapers. They will learn the style of writing. Today's news is tomorrow's history. The newspaper articles have high educational value.

Benefits:

1. More knowledge will be possessed by the individual on general things.

2. It will remove the boredom and makes the individual to spend their leisure time in useful manner.

3. Well develop the knowledge of writing. The person can become a freelance writer or a journalist.

4. The information collected may help in hard times such as general knowledge quiz or essay writing competition.

5. If you are writing a novel or a book, then these written collections will help during construction of a fiction.

"I doubt whether any contemporary expression of printed opinion and fact, both for local and national history, measures up to the newspaper...even the advertisements have unique value in social and economic study. In the wider fields of history, the whole trend of events is reported at regular intervals, in the printing of documents and letters, in the arguments of partisan communications, and in editorial opinion. If all printed sources of history had to be destroyed save one, that which would be chosen with the greatest certainty of its value to posterity would be a file of an important newspaper". -Clarence Brigham, in History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690 to 1820.

Historians delight in telling us what our history is and what it means. The documentarian, on the other hand, as often delights in recording and conveying the simple fact that we have had a history at all: that there was once a time when people looked like this, or sounded like that, or felt these ways about such things. -Ken Burns, Introduction to The Civil War

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