Newspapers will not make the transition to web-based news sources until they start selling their advantages and stop crying about their losses.
Certainly, there will always be a place for the newspapers, the newsprint-laden fishwrap that provides the only reliable source of non-broadcast news. Many of us want to have that conversational veil over our morning coffee, hard proof of saliency and a degree of intellectual honesty not possible on the Internet. Newspapers realize this, but they do not understand the importance of cloning us into another generation of readers who will eschew the trickery-laden electronic media in favor of cold, hard, printed, ink-smearing facts not subject to viral devilment.
Doing so requires that schoolkids get megadoses of newsprint in classrooms, the ubiquitous newspaper being the only continuing source of noise-making, trash-heaping, waste-covering paper always available to them. Once ingrained, this habit may carry over until the next generation hangs out at Starbucks, shielding their yawns and bloodshot from loquacious strangers.
