I harmonize with the above. Aside from losing the big dollars, what the journalists have hard feelings about is losing their limited chore at the communication table. Not so big ago, we as a rule had to stomach the journalists' variation of events. Imagine the difficulty one would have efficient in 1980 trying to get current German or French views of an or oecumenic incident. We would indubitably have accepted the inference given by one of the news agencies.
Today, the word is available on the Internet. Dan Rather would never have been exposed had things been as they were in 1980. During the up to date mini-skirmish over Swiss banks having to ground on some of their secrecy, I was able to heed to not only Americans, but a duo of cool discussions on the BBC.
Formerly, the advertisers not only got their ads published, but they were able to mastery satisfied and banish information that might be prejudicial to their monetary interests. Political correctness carried to preposterous lengths reigned matchless (and still does at too many newspapers.) Twenty years ago, you couldn't go online and in a few minutes tempo reassess a bill under concern in the federal or state legislatures; now you can, and you don't have to away the word of a newscaster as to what the bill says. Bottom line: I think about newspapers are losing unaffectedly because they have been supplanted. Are there some drawbacks? Sure.
But things seem better now than when newspapers controlled the rush of information.