I do agree that newspapers will still be around for the foreseeable future; they will just change distribution channels to web/online instead of paper. There will be a lot of reorganization to make them profitable, but we still need these beacons to navigate the world of information, combined with blogs and other informal channels. I wrote some other thoughts in this post: http://cli.gs/Xvm63P - Jorge Escobar from FriendFeed MT Plugin