Beware the Government/Media Complex!
If we don’t act to improve the health of the newspaper industry, we will see newspapers wither and die. Without newspapers, we would be less informed about our communities and have fewer outlets for the expression of independent thinking and a diversity of viewpoints.
Without newspapers, we will see the remaining two thirds of Americans reading locally based web sites for their news. And without The New York Times and the rest of the octopus known as The Associated Press, we will get our national and international news the same way - from multiple sources, acting as our own gatekeeper as to what we will pay attention to and what we will ignore.