Newspapers, especially the print editions the Penticton Western News publishes, might seem like an anachronism in the age of digital information.
After all, isn’t everything available online? We’re constantly bombarded by streams of information — from Facebook, from Twitter, Google and a thousand other sources.
But that newspaper you’re holding in your hands is unique when it comes to sources of news. It’s the only news source that isn’t as fleeting as a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.
Radio, back in the early parts of the last century, was predicted to bring the death of newspapers. Mid-century, the same was said of TV and again of the internet in the final years of the 20th Century.
The modern newspaper incorporates elements of all these, getting the news to you faster by adding online channels with video and other content, without leaving behind our core values of helping you understand the world around you with unbiased reporting on stories that matter. (Okay, and the occasional cute cat video, but who could resist?)
It’s our job to bring you news you can trust, in-depth and untainted by personal perceptions. We’re still working to do just that, whether it be on your phone, tablet, desktop computer or in print with your morning coffee, and we’re going to keep doing it. In the era of “fake news” producing news you can trust is more important than ever.
Radio and TV news only last as long as you are listening, and Facebook and Twitter flow by in an unending stream, but you can always turn back the pages of the newspaper to reread that story, whether it’s a day from now or a year.
We tell the story of Penticton, of the Okanagan, of the province, of Canada, every day.