The latest reports find that newspapers are being driven out of business by the World Wide Web. No longer is it acceptable, nor feasible, to merely have newspapers and other media outlets compete with the Internet ... they must now be part of it.

The Associated Press writes:
News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a new study.

"As online use has increased, the audiences of older media have declined," Harvard University professor Thomas Patterson said in a report on the year-long study issued by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. (See item: Internet Killed the Newspaper Star)