Steven Hodson wrote a nice post about the absurdity of a newspaper deathwatch.

Sometimes, people in our industry never cease to amaze me with how myopic they are. Couple quick points. When we say newspapers are dying, are we talking about the physical paper we hold in are hands or are we talking about the industry itself? Both are fairly ridiculous, but I would be willing to  entertain the notion that the physical paper may be on its way out with this green movement and technology shift. But to assume that, say, the nytimes.com will be replace by a network of blogs is patently absurd.

Sure, blogs like techcrunch, mashable and the usual suspects often scoop traditional media, but technology is one of hundreds of topics newspapers cover.

When blogs start covering local townhall meetings and writing features and ride-alongs, then we can talk.