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rendition switcher   Question: Will the Internet kill the
newspaper?  Jonathan Zittrain: The problem with newspapers is
Craigslist. This guy named Craig sets up a mailing list, and
Craigslist.org, it's the ugliest site you've ever seen. If you
want to get a couch unloaded, that's where you go instead of the
classifieds. Now the idea that somehow we owe it to newspapers,
in order to get decent reportage, and have a New York Times
Baghdad bureau, to subsidize them by not allowing Craigslist to
exist, so we still have to go through them to place our
classifieds, a ridiculous enough notion that it's no doubt a
straw man, and nobody would ever say such a thing. So newspapers
do have a problem in that what they have to offer, and what many
of us think is a good thing that they do, unbiased reporting and
professional journalism, s