This is akin to saying someone can come along and make a $20 smart phone and Apple will lose all of their iPhone revenues. People will pay more for quality. No

This is akin to saying someone can come along and make a $20 smart phone and Apple will lose all of their iPhone revenues. People will pay more for quality. No offense to you, but your blog would likely not be considered that by 100k people, at least not enough to pay. (Neither would mine). Quality content costs real money to produce, some schlub like you or me writing our opinions online does not. Charging certainly wouldn't work for bloggers, but it just might for outlets like this or the WSJ or the NYT. There's a market for both.