Via Romenesko, Dave Barry declares newspapers dead:

“Newspapers,” he said right off the bat, “are dead.” […]
“My son is 25. He’s been around newspaper people all of his life. He doesn’t get the paper. That’s the first problem. The second problem is: We can no longer compel people to pay attention. We used to be able to say, there’s this really important story in Poland. You should read this. Now people say, I just look up what I’m interested in on the Internet.”

He’s right, but there’s an important distinction. I think the Web presence of the major newspapers will continue to grow — it’s just the print product that is diminishing as a source of news.