Unfortunately I don't think there will many, if any high-quality 'glossies' even if newspapers die a death.

I'll be sad if newspapers do go, they are easier reading than the electronic media, which is short and sharp and, to be frank, often quite light-weight in it's analysis.

But then again, I hope the weekend papers stay around.A quiet Sunday morning with a newspaper out in the back yard away from all distraction is a great way to start the day.

Television did not 'kill off' radio, but it removed it from the focus of public attention and made it a background commodity. Fortunes and celebrities are no longer made from radio programs. John Laws and Alan Jones will probably be the last Australian radio millionaires.

Likewise for papers; as they become less important they will lose their entertainment value and become simply a public utility. There will be fewer celebrity columnists, electioneering, scaremongering campaigns and pompous editorials, and an increasing focus on paying ordinary competent people to provide accurate and relevant information. And whether that comes on paper or on a screen is really immaterial.

"The media landscape is changing with readers flocking to online news sites at the expense of the traditional print media."

Ineeeedy YES.. hilarious isn't it :)

WE are becoming the news..... all those bean counters at Ad Agencies.. must be having multiple coronaries... so sad (cough)

One of the reasons for the decline in circulations is the the stranglehold that the latte-left has over the editorial of the Fairfax Press.

These grey-haired old men and women, who still believe that Gough is God and Germaine Greer isn't mad, still seem to be campaigning for the end of the Vietnam war! Lets do the time-warp again!

Yes, Melbourne's "Middle Age" and the SMH "Sydney Middle-Aged Herald" live up to their names! I saw a group people recently in the Fairfax Foyer. My initial thought was "what are all these retirees doing in the foyer?" Then I asked, and was told that they were journalists at union meeting!

What do old people do? Like an episode of "Grumpy Old Women", oldies go on and on, writing long, indulgent articles, berating the kids of today for not being "leftie" and "feminist" and "radical" as they should be!

By prescribing yesterday's solutions and values to today's problems are doing tremendous damage to our society and policy!

Our kids futures are limited by leftie-postmodern education, the NT intervention could have been the beginning of the end of Australian Apartheid, bit they have campaigned for more and more watering-down. Our sons are failed out of school by 'girl-friendly' teaching pedagogies and curricula, (so that nearly two-thirds of uni students are girls!), our men suicide at the highest rates in the western world due to feminist supremacism... and another generation of children have their fathers stolen from them by the Feminist Court. All this harm is the result of latte-leftie control of the media.

There is hope!
The circulation trend of the less ideological "The Australian" keep rising, as the readership of the Fairfax press (along with it's journalists) keep dying of old age!

Who will write the obituary the last Fairfax journalist?