"At some point in the future, newspapers may disappear," writes Daniel Gross. "But count me in the later rather than sooner camp."
He
writes in Slate that hope is being conflated by analysis for the doomsayers of newspapers, but that the results indicate otherwise. There's a large audience, substantial revenue stream, and even profit in a recession --- something online sites have yet to develop.
The newspaper-is-dead crowd have a different agenda than one of journalistic research and conclusion, he suggests.