They must always have something people can take away. They make schools push the reading habit, teaching children that it is their responsibility to read newspapers daily. They teach adults that reading newspapers is a mark of growing into successful social status. They are ever-regenerating. I came to America with fears and doubts, but returned home with the hope and conviction that the dirge for the newspaper could not yet be heard.
Humanity is stuck with the printed word, and that s for the better.
Izeze is editor of The Guardian of Lagos, Nigeria.