This week Slate.com has taken four people and asked two only to read a paper and two only to surf the Web (but not newspaper sites) in order to stimulate a discussion on who comes away better informed and more frustrated.
The results have been pouring in for a few days --- more than a dozen posts from the writers at this counting --- and the extensive writing is a good illumination on the emotional ties to newspapers, the excitement about the Web, and the concerns about each in terms of satisfying the content and esthetic requirements.
It has been an interesting (if unscientific) exercise. The edge went clearly to the Web, but not without lots of asterisks.