Newspaper's time has come (and gone) - its not the concept that's going away, its just the media it appears on. There will always be news 'organizations' - they

Newspaper's time has come (and gone) - its not the concept that's going away, its just the media it appears on. There will always be news 'organizations' - they might morph into a much more diverse and distributed form, but that's just progress. Any sufficiently complex system evolves. Think of this as de-urbanization. Rather than central metropolitan news organizations the news is going rural. There is a school of thought (that I don't disagree with) that says that a free press is a tenet of democracy, so if that's true there will always be free news reporting. It just wont come to us on dead trees.