The large daily newspapers made a serious financial error by not charging for internet access, not saying I like that but I am afraid that is their only salvation financially. Why pay for it when you can get it online for nothing !!

I still get my NY Times and leaf through each and every page. There is something relaxing, despite the content of the news, about leafing through the paper and seeing items that you would miss online because they would require you to be looking for them. I cannot see anything every replacing that !

My personal sources of news go from the Times, who I surely dont agree with much of the time, to the Sun but I do not rely on it for any national or international news, and then the net. Over the years as stories broke I have quite a list of "favorites" as I like to go to local papers to get more detailed and "intimate" coverage of the story. I do balance it a bit by simpling googling big stories and getting as much as I can, even if from some fringe web site.

It is also a good source of news to keep an eye on the new releases of non fiction books. If the story was big, someone will write on it, and I find that to be an exceptional source of detail that never makes it to the MSM in anyway !

I also think that, like the auto manufacturers, many of these large papers are "married" to unions and any adjustments are just not easy !