In the 1990's, record and music industry executives watched in horror as peer to peer file sharing destroyed their business model and led ultimately to the ipod and itunes. Now newspaper executives are watching the same thing happen to them. People who still read (old people like us) increasingly are using news aggregators and news readers to unbundle content they are interested in and jettison the rest, with predictable results on circulation and advert revenue. If you don't like your hometown rag's take on the news, no problem, just pull up the Washington Times, or Pittsburg Tribune, or even specific journalists for your pause that refreshes.
Jason Fry writes more about Belgian newspapers' war with Google. Guess who I'm betting on. Belgium hasn't won a battle since the Punic wars.
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