With advances in internet technology, is the death of newspapers something that is going to be necessary? The answer is proving more and more to be "yes". Advertisers are finding opportunites on the internet to be more prominent than those from print newspapers (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7830218).
Jobs are starting to disappear, and with the state of our economy today is the risk worth it? If newspapers were to shut down alltogether would these jobs be replaced for internet news sources? As of today we cannot answer that question, but it seems to be that this is the way the trend will be from here on out.
Today people would rather watch the news or read it on the internet when it is convenient for them, instead of paging through articles that are not relevant to them. The television news highlites on stories that pertain to the area that the news is being watched. With people's schedules changing and work loads changing, they don't have time to read about things that do not pertain to them. On the internet they can search for whatever articles they find interesting, as well as getting those highlites about their area from the television news.
If newspapers do not try and do something to save the print news, the nation will experience a media death. Some newspapers are already trying to kill off other news companies they own(http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/) -- which is starting to foreshadow our future.
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