The International Herald Tribune, a newspaper with a sharp-looking website, asks how long it will be until a major American city is without a hometown newspaper. Not that long, I wouldn’t wonder.
I agree with the sentiment that loss of professional journalists would be a blow to civil society, but that hardly means that loss of print publications would be dire; online awaits.
Online, though, one will hope to find, next year and beyond, websites that are curious, investigative, diligent, and fearless of controversy.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/12/
business/12papers.php