Digital Storytelling vs. "Original" Storytelling

While all of the glitz and glimmer of the digital age looks and sounds really cool, I tend to go back to traditional storytelling. I think that although it is "slow" and not considered what is cool, the traditional form of reading a book allows your mind the creativity to expand. This is what we should be focusing on, now. Digital media allows us to make our stories better, but what I have found through this semester is that the "meat and potatoes" of the story needs to be a solid foundation, or the effects and glitter of the digital storyteller will not be enough to make the story worth hearing.

Am I alone in thinking this way? I honestly don't feel so. The more I think about it, the more this makes sense to me. While I do appreciate the advances in the art of storytelling, nothing beats an imagination. I was recently playing with my nieces, and I found that their love for the written word is what drives their love for stories. Sure, we all love watching movies and seeing the stories played out in a few minutes rather than reading them and "seeing" the story unfold in hours or days. Times have changed. Everything needs to happen faster and faster. Does this need to happen to storytelling to allow it to survive? All paths appear to be pointing in that direction.