US newspapers have been consolidating and going out of business and shutting their doors since the beginning of the last century, facing loss of readers to radio, then newsreels, then television, and now the Internet. The problem this time is that the most avid news consumers are not interested in the fate of newspapers, even though it is those organizations and their corps of journalists who provide the bulk of the news which powers the information culture. Our love for news and our unwillingness to pay for it may prove fatal to quality journalism.
"The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day."
