said by jtudor 
:Just one problem with that: Where to Google, yahoo, the AP and many other online sources get their news from? Local newspapers that is who.
AP has reporters in some major cities, but not in every town. Yahoo has no reporters, neither does google.
If all the newspapers cease to exist, where will the news for the online sources come from? They will not have any sources, to the amount of news reported will diminish drastically.
I work from a newspaper group, and this has been a hot topic of discussion lately.
Unfortunately, local coverage(except in major cities like you say) is going to suffer drastically. The major newswires(AP, Reuters, etc) are going to be the only sources of news and they won't cover all communities. I guess truly local news will have to depend on those free weekly ad newspapers they throw on your lawn and that have 20 or 30 stories a week.
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