I don't see bloggers only replacing the news, unless those bloggers are just the journalists switching from writing a column in the paper, to publishing their a

I don't see bloggers only replacing the news, unless those bloggers are just the journalists switching from writing a column in the paper, to publishing their articles at the newspaper's website (maybe in weblog format). I think the biggest problem for local/print news has more to do with how delayed the news gets to the reader. If anything, I would see more newspapers abandoning or reducing paper editions in favor of online-only news (like the Christian Science Monitor (I think it was them)).