The Era of the Newspaper is Over, But Right and Left Anti-Mainstream Media Forces Shouldn't Rejoice

James V. DeLong writes that when newspapers went online, they “embarked on a course of business suicide, drinking the “information wants to be free” Kool-Aid and in the process empowering every blogger and aggregator to mediate between the news source and the reader, raking off a cut of revenue along the way.” Well, yes.