We're Losing The Dinosaurs. Do We Care?

On a Sunday television program recently, we were told we're losing our newspapers. This is the end of the newspaper business. Everything is going online and people don't have to pay a dime.
The Internet has it all - the ads, the news, the comics, etc. They say the Internet papers have more readers, the online newspaper looks prettier, and is faster in delivering the news.
It's all on the Internet. Anyone with a laptop can sit in the park on a beautiful day and come up with an online newspaper. There's no paper involved, no presses, no overhead.
One newspaper editor on the television program said newspapers are like a lamprey beating off another predator.
Another editor thinks the papers can adapt. After all, they are the originators of investigative reporting. And he thinks people will eventually have to pay to read an article online.
As for the reporters, they know that text, music, and videos are changing every minute. Reporters not only have to write now, but blog, use a video camera, text message...they have to do it all or their job is lost to someone who can and will.
It's generational. People under 50 don't know what a newspaper is like, was like, and they don't care...so said the television program.
But the dinosaurs do!
They are those people who don't have a laptop or desktop, a blackberry or blueberry, IPod or IPhone. And don't want one! They love the newspapers. They love to hold it in their hands and get that printer's ink all over their fingers. It gives them time to sit down with a cup of coffee or iced tea or whatever, kick off their shoes and prop up their feet, and relax while mulling over all the things the newspaper holds...want-ads and all.
Some people don't think we've figured out yet a new menu to distribute the news. I'd like to say for us here at the library: "That's great!" We still have newspapers here. They're on the tall racks in the reading area.
So, until then, when the world figures out that "new menu," come on in to your library and enjoy the newspaper. You don't even have to pay a dime (or dollar) or show your library card.