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There is some truth to some of the replies.
Newspapers are the only organizations that do true investigations. All the big stories you read about on the news sites, or watch on CNN, or bloggers talk about, originated from newspapers actually digging up the dirt and following up with sources, etc. Many big stories that are on the front page of the New York Times were investigated for months. Editors and writers went back and forth, double checked sources. No other format can really do that.
A tax isn't the answer, but I hope the newspaper industry can find a way to stick around. The founders of America stated that a free and healthy press was one of the keys to a working democracy. I hate to tell you this, but Anderson Cooper standing in a hurricane doesn't qualify as good journalism.
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