Something blew my mind on Tuesday. Literally knocked me for six but when thinking about it more and more, it shouldn’t have. So I was doing my usual browse through Twitter, and I came across this post.
Now this looks like a normal post (and I’ve blacked out the user who posted it) and the story behind it lies with the BBC cost at the top.
The Prime Minister is talking about abolishing the TV license fee in the UK. My views on this may be different to others but I won’t be going into that here. So this user was showing their weekly cost for entertainment. With the cost of the TV license (BBC) being split down into a weekly cost as apposed to the monthly larger cost.
Looking at it that way it doesn’t seem too bad, multiple channels, the iPlayer, radio, websites etc and compare that to the weekly cost for sky and BT, its a pretty good price.
The thing that knocked me was their weekly cost for printed media. £23.07 a week for newspapers. When added all together, they cost more than SkyTV does.
Don’t get me wrong, people can spend their money on whatever they want. If you want to buy newspapers, then feel free (although the Sun is a little dodgy for us northerners and after seeing their election coverage also made me question whether I look into the sun newspaper any more).
But it's 2020, the majority of news is the same no matter where it comes from. The majority of news articles can be read for free online and if someone has an iPhone, you can get specialist news articles for free (and for £9.99 a month you can have various magazines from around the world if you choose). For those of us around Manchester, the Manchester Evening News post their articles on their app, on twitter and you can even follow the reporters online to see what they’re getting up to and seeing their views.
Not to mention that commuters can get the Metro (and sometimes the M.E.N) for free on the train, buses, the tube, and around cities. So the fact that this person spends a whopping £23 per WEEK on literally, a difference of opinion, boggles my mind.
Which makes me wonder, if the world is still heading towards an online news time or whether printed news will always be around?
I feel I have moved on from printed news, in fact my household only gets 1 paper per week and that is only for the TV magazine on a Saturday. It was only about 5 or so years ago when the only news we basically had was printed newspapers, and it shows we’ve moved on drastically here (which I feel is good for the environment)
However, I have been told that I am media companies ideal demographic. When Apple, for example, release new devices and services, I am usually right there getting it (however I prefer Spotify, and don’t use apple arcade but have recently signed up for Apple News). So my weekly spend will be totally different with most of my money going towards streaming services (which the whole household uses).
If you’ve read my ramblings this far I would like to thank you and ask … do you still buy newspapers?
Or do you use devices like your phone or Alexa?
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