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By coincidence, the LA Times is recognizing simultaneously that they also need to re-look at how they deliver news:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-times25jan25,0,5087609.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines

Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O'Shea unveiled a major initiative Wednesday to combine operations of the newspaper and its Internet site — a change he said was crucial to ensuring that The Times remains a premier news outlet.

O'Shea employed dire statistics on declining print advertising revenue to urge The Times' 940 journalists to throw off a "bunker mentality" and view latimes.com as the paper's primary vehicle for delivering news.

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The Times is in even worse shape than the Republic, but all newspapers need to recognize that the days of making people to pay to have several pounds of paper thrown on their driveway are over.

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