1ST AFFIRMATIVE(6 MINUTES)

SPEAK SLOWLY!
Thank you madam/mr. speaker.
A splendid morning/afternoon I bid to madam/mr. speaker, wise
and just panel of adjudicators, meticulous time keeper, fellow
comrade, worthy opponents, last but least, members of the noble
House.
As the Prime Minister, I am obliged to my duty and
wholeheartedly supports todays motion which is Thus House
believes that newspapers are a thing of the past. Thus, we the
affirmative team strongly believe in todays motion.
As the first speaker, I would define the keywords in todays
motion and explain the role of my fellow colleagues and present
the case line for todays motion.
Members of the House,
The Australian Newspaper Plan libraries have adopted the
following definition of a newspaper: A newspaper is a serial
publication which contains news on current events of special or
general interest and appear frequently. The phrase a thing in the
past means something that no longer happens.
Members of the House,

Members of the house, we the government strongly agree with

todays motion based on the following grounds;

1. Technological Change
2. people prefer to pick and choose what news they consume
3. Newspapers cannot be environmentally sustained.
As the Prime Minister, I will take up the first argument whereas
my deputy will deal with the other two arguments. . Whereas the
third speaker will rebut and refute the oppositions points so that
the truth is revealed and you are not misled by them.
Members of the House,
Looking back upon the heyday of the newspaper industry,
images of angry smoking editors, journalists with fedoras carrying
press cards and newspaper vendors on the street shouting
Read all about it are evoked. That was back then when nothing
MORE than newspapers existed, that is in the form of competition.
Yes, the newspaper was a cutting edge as the refrigerator back
when the nation relied on its local street boy to find out what was
new in the world. Moreover, years ago news would take weeks to
weave its way around the globe. Today it takes seconds. A
newspaper cant respond as quickly as the internet or television
can.
In an interconnected global world whereby technology allows
us within seconds to communicate across the globe in a variety of

forms the newspaper medium becomes obsolete. In the time it

takes to write, edit, print and distribute a newspaper the events
being covered may very well have changed, when we have the
technology to overcome this problem it seems unlikely that
newspapers will continue to exist because who wants to read old
news? An example of newspapers not being able to adapt to
changing events can be seen with the killing of Osama Bin Laden
on 2nd May 2011, the story broke too late for the morning
newspapers in the UK to be able to change their pages to include
the story, it was then subsequently reported a day late on the 3rd
May.
Members of the House,
In surveys conducted by the American Pew Projects for
Excellence in Journalism, 41% of respondents said they read news
online either from a mobile device or tablet. The trend of getting
news from online and digital sources continues to grow and this
has sustained in the last 2 years by an increase in the use of
mobile devices. Thus, people are able to get the latest news at
the finger tips. In other words, when a news is added to a web
site, it is immediately available for browsing by millions of internet
users. In other words, news can be broken the second it happens,
or at least as long as it takes for a witness to type it and publish it
online using Twitter or Face book or Instagram and that is only
seconds. Thus, it takes away the time lag associated with
publishing content and actually making it available to users.
These clearly show that the newspapers are obsolete.

My dearest opponent, which would you preferpiping hot first

hand news or merely reading a stale one-day- old story??? I am
sure intelligent, inquisitive and tech- savvy students like you
would absolutely prefer firsthand news and experience by
watching it in real time on TV and websites.
In addition, not only it is tremendously faster to search and
read online news but also you can easily get second opinion about
the topic.
Members of the House,
While todays newspapers may appear visually different from
the yesteryears, in many aspects they have failed to keep pace
with changes in society. The technology revolution has meant
that readers accustomed to waiting for a daily newspaper can
now receive up-to-the minute updates from web portals,
bloggers and services such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.In
other words, you dont need a newspaper to read the news. With
a tablet, you can sit in your chair comfortably with a game on the
television and read the news between plays.
In the nutshell, the technological change has shoved
newspapers to the edge. So much so the newspaper industry is
already in the coffin ready to be nailed and laid to rest.
Once again, I would like to reaffirm our support for todays
motion which is This House believes that newspapers are a thing
in the past. With this, I thank you.

SECOND SPEAKERS SPEECH (AFFIRMATIVE)

Thank you, madam/mr. Speaker.
SPEAK SLOWLY AND LOOK AT THE FACES WHEN
ADDRESSING
A very good _____________, to Madam /Mr. Speaker, honorable
judges, members of the government team, time-keeper and
members of the house. The motion of todays debate is this
house believes that newspapers are a thing in the past. We the
government team strongly agree with todays motion.
Members of the House, before I enter into our second argument in
detail, I would like to refute some of the points put forth by the
first speaker of the Opposition team:
1. Their argument
He/she claimed that.

This is untrue because

(Why it is inaccurate, unbelievable, false )
2. He/she claimed that.
This is untrue because
(Why it is inaccurate, unbelievable, false )
Moreover, what she /he said is all sizzle and no steak, because
her/his arguments are neither valid nor believable.
We have to face the fact that this retro-technology has been
pushed aside to make way the next flashy technology such as the
internet. It is total, completely impractical to dig through a
compost pile of newspapers when we can access all the archives
using the palm-sized gadgets. It is high time to accept the
inevitable conclusion of the newspapers.
Members of the House,
Our honorable Prime Minister has already explained the
technological change has caused newspapers to be obsolete. I
will now continue with our second argument.
Nowadays, people have become selective readers. People want
to pick and choose which stories and columns they consume. In
other words, people now prefer to pull the content they want
rather than have it pushed on them. In the digital world, readers
become their own editor and no longer need to rely entirely on old
hierarchical structures. Due the fast paced life, people only want

to read what interest them. Thus, the digital world offers this.
There is no hassle of flipping through pages of dull, dry,
unexciting articles which in fact is absolutely a waste of time.
In addition, for those who want to find an answer to questions
or do research quickly, they are able to browse through quickly
through the websites. Newspapers in the tens pages in length can
be skimmed through for a few minutes via online.
Members of the House,

Newspapers have no place in the modern media landscape as

they are not environmentally friendly, they are a waste of paper
when there are many other efficient ways in which news can be
disseminated. For example a single annual subscription to the
New York Times roughly generates 520lb of waste which equates
to approximately 4.25 trees being cut down per reader per year 2,
when you take into account all the other publications that printed
throughout the world this equates to a lot of wastage of
increasingly scarce natural resources which could be avoided.
Sadly, causing millions of acres of forest are cut each year for the
newsprint. The last remaining old-growth forests in northern
Canada, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Siberia, and other areas are now
being logged for pulp wood as well as plantation. In US, an
estimated 5 million acres of forests in the southeastern, the

worlds largest pulp producing region are logged for paper each
year.
Moreover, production of newsprint derives
rampant deforestation. Such deforestation is surely one of the
major grounds of global warming that enhance the climate
change while also endanger the subsistence forest habitants,
covering many key species like birds, mammals, reptiles and
amphibians, fish and insects.
Hence, using digital tools to distribute news is more efficient as
you only use resources when the content is actually required
rather than the print media method in which the product is
printed when it may not be necessarily purchased and consumed.
Members of the House, all the facts put forth have proved that
newspapers are indeed a thing in the past. Before I rest my case I
would like share this quote : They kill good trees to put out bad
newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, March 8th
1982
Finally, I would like to reaffirm our stance on todays motion
that we the government strongly and wholeheartedly support it.
Thank you.

3rd Affirmative Speaker( 6 minutes)

Thank you, Madam/Mr. Speaker.
A very good morning to Madam /Mr. Speaker, honorable
judges, members of the opposing team, time-keeper and
members of the house.
The motion before the House today is :
THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT NEWSPAPERS ARE A THING
IN THE PAST.
We, the government, totally support todays motion.

Members of the House,

The Opposition Leader has tried you to tell you that

This is wrong because.

His Deputy also tried to mislead you
.. This is absolutely ridiculous
because..

Members of the House,

Our honorable Prime Minister enlightened you on how in this
millennium, we have undergone technological change.
Today, most people get their news via TV networks, mobile
phones, computers, kindles, nooks, etc. The newspaper is
obsolete. The newspaper used to be the place you could read
more about a topic you heard about briefly. Now the internet
allows you to read the story more in depth, view comments about
it, and read the same story from many different perspectives on
other sites. Once the baby boomer generation dies off,
newspapers will not circulate. This is because people no longer
have to trust a handful of national papers. News aggregation
sites such as Google News draw together sources from around the
world. The web has in fact opened the closed world of
professional editors and reporters to anyone with a keyboard to
anyone with a keyboard and an internet connection. In addition, it
offers truth ,boundless materials to chew on.

Members of the House,

Our Prime Minister also pointed out that while todays
newspapers may appear visually different from the yesteryears,
in many aspects they have failed to keep pace with changes in
society. The technology revolution has meant that readers
accustomed to waiting for a daily newspaper can now receive upto-the minute updates from web portals, bloggers and services
such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.In other words, you dont
need a newspaper to read the news.
Members of the House,
Our deputy prime minister highlighted that nowadays, people
have become selective readers. People want to pick and choose
which stories and columns they consume. In other words, people
now prefer to pull the content they want rather than have it
pushed on them. In the digital world, readers become their own
editor and no longer need to rely entirely on old hierarchical
structures. Due the fast paced life, people only want to read what
interest them. And this what the digital world offers .
He further explained that due the fast paced life, people only
want to read what interest them. They do not have time to read
through the tens of pages of the newspapers. People only read
what they want to read and they want it fast. If a person wants to
get an interesting article, he would just have to click the link on
the web and wala.he is instantly taken to the full article.

Members of the House,

Newspapers have no place in the modern media landscape as
they are not environmentally friendly, they are a waste of paper
when there are many other efficient ways in which news can be
circulated. For example , 500,000 trees are killed each week for
an American Sunday paper. when you take into account all the
other publications that printed throughout the world this equates
to a lot of wastage of increasingly scarce natural resources which
could be avoided. In other words, newspapers must be put to an
end because more and more trees are cut down daily. The
consequences will be cause a huge impact on Mother Earth such
as Green House Effects and Global Warming. Thank goodness
many people are going green and are doing their utmost best to
conserve the nature. Because of this awareness, people prefer to
read online rather than buy the newspapers. Hence, the
newspapers readership is declining sharply and will soon has the
same fate as the dinosaurs.
Members of the House, all the arguments to forth by our team
clearly show indeed Newspapers are a thing in the past. I would
once again reaffirm our stance in support of todays motion that
This House believes that Newspapers are a thing in the past.
With that, I rest my case. Thank you

Summing Up Affirmative ( 4 minutes)

A splendid morning once again to madam / mr speaker, wise
adjudicators , the opposing team and members of the House.
Allow me first to reaffirm our teams stance on todays motion
which This House believes that Newspapers are a Thing in the
Past. Before I sum up our teams argument for this motion, I
would like to refute what the opponents have said.
The opposing team tried to delude us by stating
that

This is absolutely untrue

because.
In addition, they claimed
that
...
We strongly believe that you did not buy their outrageous idea
when they
said

Members of the House,

We the government has shown you the truth but allow us to once
again present the 3 main arguments we put forth.

Our honourable Prime Minister explained the definitions and our

first argument which is technological change. He put in plain
words how technological change has caused the death of
newspapers.
The trend of getting news from online and digital sources
continues to grow and this has sustained in the last 2 years by an
increase in the use of mobile devices. Thus, people are able to get
the latest news at the finger tips. In other words, when a news is
added to a web site, it is immediately available for browsing by
millions of internet users. In other words, news can be broken the
second it happens, or at least as long as it takes for a witness to
type it and publish it online using Twitter or Face book or
Instagram and that is only seconds.
Our Deputy Prime Minister continued to go into details on the
other 2 arguments put forth ; that..
1. people prefer to pick and choose what news they consume
2. Newspapers cannot be environmentally sustained.
Members of the House,
Nowadays, people have become selective readers. People want
to pick and choose which stories and columns they consume. In
other words, people now prefer to pull the content they want
rather than have it pushed on them. In the digital world, readers
become their own editor and no longer need to rely entirely on old
hierarchical structures. Due the fast paced life, people only want

to read what interest them. Thus, the digital world offers this.
There is no hassle of flipping through pages of dull, dry,
unexciting articles which in fact is absolutely a waste of time.
Readers become their own editor. In addition, they are also able
to get opinions from others which something a printed
newspapers cant do.
Members of the House, newspapers will soon be a retro tech
because it cannot be environmentally sustained. More people are
becoming environmentally aware and doing their part to conserve
Mother nature. Millions of trees are being cut down to be made as
papers. Thus, there is a sharp decline in newspapers readership
as this awareness is wide spread. Indeed, Newspapers are a thing
in the past.
Last but not least, I would like to reaffirm our stance for todays
motion that Newspapers are a thing in the past. With that, I rest
my case. Thank you.