Part of the problem or part of the solution?

Newspaper owners and managers are kidding themselves if they think they can force the world back 10 years. Either get on board with new business models or face the consequences. You can't put the internet back in a box.

Perhaps the future of news is BBC type journalism, where everyone pays a news tax (called licence fee in the UK) and the government pays journalists to follow the stories. With the right indepedence from the politicians, these journalists can generate the news, and sites can take these feeds for low cost. I'm normally against government ownership of anything, but if newspapers can't be profitable enough to generate news that doesn't pay, then someone is going to have to do it.