The future of our news media is unfolding. What will be left in a couple of years? As James Surowiecki points out in this New Yorker article, strangely enough, it isn't that people are using print media less, in fact, they are using it more.
The difference is that today they don’t have to pay for it. The real problem for newspapers, in other words, isn’t the Internet; it’s us. We want access to everything, we want it now, and we want it for free. That’s a consumer’s dream, but eventually it’s going to collide with reality: if newspapers’ profits vanish, so will their product.
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