Too bad newsprint had to go down the yellow journalism road so wholeheartedly.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’m afraid all-electronic could be even more manipulable (is that a word?). For example, rewriting or occulting history is so much easier.
Not really, just propagating and distributing it is, but that also became much easier with the advent of typewriters and telegraph and radio and TV and fax compared to relatively "old media" - faster and cheaper communication and distribution of news and opinions often masquerading as "news".
But on the other and very positive side, same advances in technology allow for faster, fuller and more encompassing debunking of history rewriters or "history makers" - Dan Rather's Texas AG "incident" was prime example and watershed. The cheap storage / archiving and fast indexing / searching / retrieval of facts and historical material along with commentary can't help but facilitate refuting of "rewriters" and sending them in short order to the "ash heap of history".
Stay old-fashioned, but have no fear - electronic is here, electronic is inevitable and electronic is good - the power of processing of information (storage + search + retrieval) now "belongs to the people". By contrast, old media with limited reproduction and delivery "bandwidth" just was not capable of delivering it to "the masses" (Alvin Toffler emphasized media "de-massifying" in Third Wave 30 years ago), and was not really interested in it if it meant losing control over means of delivery of content, because it would mean losing control over content.
Power to the people! Don't you just love killing them softly with their own slogans?