Yep newspapers are dying. This is in part because they are part of this whole problem. Here's the NYT front page for today:
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Let's see, 2(!!) stories about Mitt Romney, something happening in Senegal, people are climbing mountains (always front page news!), something about Iran. Hmm even the supposed paper of record, the supposed bastion of the liberal media, is doing all it can to ignore the big story right in front of its nose.