June Bridge now on sale
Although you’re reading this on a digital platform, written by someone who began his journalism close to five decades ago in the same print journal, the Bridge is still relevant. Very much so.
There’s something about a page that doesn’t change when you swipe it. Which stays in the one space while you read the whole story. That means you do read, rather than merely skim as a moving screen encourages you to do. Sure, you might not finish the story on that printed page, but there’s a much better chance that you do.
Then there’s the way a print publication works. The contents are all there in one package, unchanging, and a much higher number of the stories in a magazine are likely to be read, than depending on a reader deciding between a bunch of clickable links, any one of which is likely to take him or her further away from the home page and all the other stories.
It's why I still believe in the old-fashioned printed page, even if our local and national newspapers are shrinking readerships in the face of digital news and features. It's why, before writing this article, I sat in the sun in my back garden and read through a section of the Weekend Irish Times. I know I learned and retained a lot more useful information from that than from all the online reading I did during the week.
Don't get me wrong. I'm obviously an enthusiastic consumer and producer of information on digital platforms. There's room for both. Why I believe both will survive is for a longer discussion.
Which is all rather a long way of telling you to get out there and buy your June Bridge. Almost 50 years on from when it was set up, it is still Kilcullen's own regular local newspaper. More, it is yours. About you and yours.
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