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The internet 'news' services are reliant on newspapers and news services (like the BBC) for their real reporting and facts. Once they're gone, there won't be any real news left on the web, just a bunch of boneheads with blogs and opinions.





They wont be wiped out but there will be base papers...Wash Post, NY Times, WSJ, Chicago Trib, Miami Her, LA Times and USA Today. Most smaller hometown papers will be runout of existence just as Walmart has killed main street in these sleepy towns. They also will be a small amount within cities of the alternative press rags but with a very small publication rate and very tight demographic numbers.

But I can attest to seeing the demise of the nationals/locals because the Borders/Barnes And Noble/Books-A-Million have stopped carrying them in my local market.

Its merly just a fact of technology....catching up with what funds them....consumers.



To build on that, smaller market papers will take national, human interest, money and sports from the big guys. The smaller papers will publish local and community as unique content. This is the way it basically is now. Also look for the daily to dry up completely and the weekend papers (with the shopping ads and possibly real estate) to be th only thing published on paper.