@Sean Williams Are you implying that small-town papers aren’t suffering? That certainly seems to be the tone of that SNA article. Unfortunately I can’t get to the WSJ article the SNA references (it’s behind the *cough* WSJ paywall ).

If that’s what you’re saying I have to say that would seem to be a pretty rosy outlook, given the mounting evidence to the contrary.

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If Mr. Guttenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else, and I came along one day and said I have got this wonderful idea we are going to chop down some trees up in Canada and ship them to a paper mill which will cost us a fortune to run through and deliver newsprint and then we’ll ship that down to some newspaper and we’ll have a whole bunch of people staying up all night writing up things and then we’ll send a bunch of kids out the next day all over town delivering this thing we are going to really wipe out the Internet with this ain’t going to happen…