Anyone can anonymously post articles and raise their voices in print media i.e. newspapers. It is difficult to track the real owner of an article. With electronic media, anyone can copy any piece of information and present it as his own (plagiarism). There is no means to determine which of the two websites have authentic data. Rumors and lies circulate all over the Internet and hence the legitimacy of the information becomes questionable. The information provided by a newspaper is usually more authentic and genuine.
Print media is also a lot more efficient in providing local news. It covers local stories in depth and carries information about the local events like a play being screened in the town or an inter-school hockey tournament.
Print media does not indulge in "breaking news", and hence is free from any kind of temptation to indulge in speculative news. On TV, the quality of news is deteriorating these days because of the competition between the channels. They try to sensationalize the news unnecessarily in an attempt to increase viewership.
Printed material with moral or spiritual messages for example the Bible and those with excellent intellectual ideas have lived on. Their teachings are still relevant in today’s world.
People with the reading culture totally enjoy reading printed material for entertainment purposes. Novels are good examples of addictive printed material. Some classics, for examples Shakespeare plays have continued being popular for this reason.
Print media is durable, whereas a small virus or a bug in the software can erase the most important data needed from a computer.
Print media has been around from so many