should newspapers seek antitrust-exemption status?

[gh]

one way to stop the cycle of online giveaways that's killing the industry:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 002&sc=368

[Marlow]

Few will miss printed dailies more than I (have subscribed to whatever local rag was (NY Times, SF Chron, LA Times, Phila Inquirer and Wash Post among them) for 40 years, plus USA Today since the very day it started (well, from the box the first coupla years), but their days are severely numbered, no matter what brilliant strategies anyone comes up with.

My crystal ball says that within 25 years, news, TV, movies, and internet will all be one and the same onto your home wall-monitor. And you will pay 'per-view' on everything except generic web content.