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What is flawed is their bloated businesses. Real journalism? We hardly get that now days anyway. If news organizations start charging access, it may make more profit (I don't know), but the truth is the vast majority of users will move on and the void will be filled elsewhere. I find more "real" journalism on blogs these days, then I do in newspapers.
On the few blogs I follow about specific issues that interest me, whenever a major news site picks up a similar story it is almost hilarious to see how pathetically inaccurate the news site is and how void of any real details it is. Half the time it seems as though the editor (for the first time) has quickly read a few blogs and rehashed a bit of it without any real information.
We all know large blogs bring in large money, more then enough to justify writing PROPER, RESEARCHED articles. There are too many people willing to fill the void if papers start charging for access.
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