I was truly saddened to read of plans to discontinue the daily print version of The Daily Universe. Starting when I was a BYU student and later as a faculty member, I’ve always enjoyed picking up a copy of The Daily Universe to read over lunch.
Now that my eyesight is suffering from too much time staring at a computer screen and the inbox of my email is overflowing, I definitely won’t be reading The Universe online.
I do understand the university’s concerns about the financial sustainability of the print version of the newspaper. Even so, in an age when Americans are increasingly uninformed about the world, and people think that reading a Tweet or Facebook post makes them experts on current events, it’s saddening to learn that a major news source for the BYU community will become that much less accessible.
BLAIR BATEMAN
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
