Newspapers: Do You Hear That Distant Flushing Commode?

In today's TCS Daily (the former Tech Central Station), Glenn Reynolds has a timely article on the slo-mo demise of the American newspapers, slowly being killed by sloppiness and reflexive leftism that increasingly fools no one. He cites commentary from a source at ABC:

These certainly look like dark days for the newspaper industry generally. ABC's Michael Malone writes:

It was just a year ago that I predicted -- to considerable consternation and censure from the press -- that most major newspapers would be dead or dying by the end of this decade. Apparently, I was being conservative.

As I look around California, for example, I see the San Francisco Chronicle turning into the Daily Worker for baby boomers, the Los Angeles Times selecting stories based on political considerations, and now, the only real newspaper of any size left, the Mercury News, apparently orphaned.

Read the rest here.