The coming death of the newspaper began in the 1980s. I worked in a consultancy specializing in the online world (Prestel, NAPLPS, videotex, et al). And one of the execs saw back then that classifieds -- the heart of paper revenues -- would be stolen away from them. Of course, what happened when the Internet came along was totally unexpected, a true Black Swan event, one guy stealing away all that business with Craigslist. Don't separate money from the issue.