Since there are a lot of people on this site thinking about this issue and I'm just a lowly FW programmer I'd like to ask: does anyone think we're benefitting f

Since there are a lot of people on this site thinking about this issue and I'm just a lowly FW programmer I'd like to ask: does anyone think we're benefitting from NYT, AP, Reuters, etc. providing their content on line while their revenue stream is rapidly drying up? There's plenty of good community produced free content available but I for one would be willing to pay for the equivalent of old-style journalism at some point. I think Murdoch might just be looking ahead to that day, he's not stupid. There's an excellent magazine called "Cook's Illustrated". It's printed in two colors, no advertisements, no celebrities and it's pretty thin but people are willing to pay for it. I'd love to see a Cook's Illustrated model emerge as a small subset of the web. It won't need much bandwidth and it'll have lower latency because it won't have dancing teeth whiteners all over the place.