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Power Line talks about the newspaper issue, including interesting links here and here (to newspaper stories, of course). PL concludes:
At the end of the day, of course, there is no doubt that commentary sites like this one and aggregators like Google and Yahoo rely on other media to do original news gathering. Ultimately, the newspapers and other news media who fulfill this function need to develop a business model that will work in an era of mostly electronic communication. If they don't, the demand for raw news will be filled by someone else. I agree with Power Line's basic point that big change is inevitable, but I think it is exhibiting a blind spot: the aggregators may have to change, too, and should not be so quick to assume that creators of content will acquiesce in giving them a free ride.
And at Slate, Jack Shafer has an interesting column on newspaper history.
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