[neverhillorat]

Spend the money in a media that is dead to find new readers? OK
The old saying, pigs get turned into bacon, was never more true when gleefully we watch Major Newspapers slowly die. Major TV is close behind. Why? First, they are losing news hounds to talk radio and the Internet. They don`t report the news, they try to make it. Once smart readers figured that out, see you later. (I used to get the Oregonian, WSJ, and the Sunday LATIMES and Dallas Morning News. Now I get no paper. Bet I`m not alone)
Second, cause we are gone,the ads in Newspapers aren`t don`t work. Advertisers cut back and tried different ways to get customers. Newspapers, arrogant as they are, responded to the loss of ad dollars by, you guessed it, raising rates! Bottom line, don`t buy stock in the NYT.

[Bernard]

I read several local papers on-line, but it gets harder as they attach more animation ads to each page. And, most of them force registration, which means I have to sacrifice an email address to the spam emailers they sell the addresses to.

The next generation will be newspaper-type websites that start from scratch, but what is holding this up is that the age group that would the most likely source (mid-20's) is not politically or community aware yet, so they don't feel the need to replace newspapers. That will probably happen in the next 10 years.