SEE HERE I don't know if this really is what is going down. But certainly the Internet is making the world unsafe for print media. The problem is direct immediacy for virtually every class of thing that the print media provides from breaking news to classified ads. All of those things can be done as well, perhaps better, certainly in a more immediate venue ... right on your computer on demand, than news print can provide. Is it easier to get off your duff and go search at the book store for a book that may not be in stock or to do a one click search at Barnes and Noble or Amazon and have the book delivered to your house? If you have special news interests is it easier to get your news off the internet or to research at the library or subscribe to special print media, ex. Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, or specialty technical magazines? Blogging is certainly one way to get commentary on commentary and there are a lot of blogs you can sign up for. So if you're addicted to reading other people's opinions about things you've arrived at the modern Mecca of commentary. It may mean that news print will have to reinvent itself. Competition is a good thing because it leads to a commitment to improvement. Those who fail to improve and meet the challenges of the modern world go down into the dust bin of history. There is little that can be done about it. It always reminds me of the dialog between Alice and the Red Queen:"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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