Your points are well taken, but many of us get information from trusted blog sources and Wikipedia, and hopefully we are discerning enough to be able to look at

Your points are well taken, but many of us get information from trusted blog sources and Wikipedia, and hopefully we are discerning enough to be able to look at multiple sources, sometimes to engage in discussion, etc. Now I like reading good news sources as much as the other person (the Britannica I will probably never read again unless a search takes me there), but the way to consume and find information has fundamentally changed for a large portion of the populace. Not sure if it necessarily means that news necessarily gets outsourced, but definitely gets fragmented and distributed. The key for news organizations (as opposed to a newspaper which is a medium) is to figure out how to stay relevant in that environment.