Are Mainstream Newspapers Going to Disappear?

Here is the result of a survey

RESULTS

1) Yes. The old newspaper industry is going to be totally replaced by New Media 64% (1812 votes)

2) No. Big Media newspapers will always be around 11% (313 votes)

3) No. New Media and Big Media newspapers will share the marketplace 24% (687 votes)

Total votes: 2812

Caveats:
1) Not a scientific survey, obviously.
2) Only people who access the web responded.

But there seems to be some truth to the results at least in my opinion. For example, as I continue to read the NY Times and become more aware of their impending financial problems, an aurora surrounds them: that the "status quo" or the "old guard" in power thought they were impervious to "new media" and kinda just ignored change.

And even though they added a lot more features to their website such comment sections and video news clips, these added features seem to feel as if the "old guard" looked as "new media" and selected bits and piece that they thought were advant-garde and incorporated them. But in reality they just have a bunch of old people, "journalist", that are now doing videos and allowing people to comment on their stories. And most of them, the old "journalist" seem to be out of touch with younger generations. If the NY Times is going to survive they should fire half their staff and switch to "new media".

"New media" is not objective, its opinionated. And it seems to be what people are looking for these days. The new generation has learned to realize the "talking head" news anchors were just a function of the corporate boardrooms. Now that the public can choose what is news or not, they don't need the "talking heads" via corporate boardroom to dictate what is newsworthy.

Similarly, people like to watch/read news that reflects their political and life views. Conservatives watch Fox News and read Townhall.com for their news. Liberals watch MSNBC and read HuffingtonPost.com or Politico.com. If you're in between, and undecided on an news story ya watch/read all of them. CNN tries to be objective, but it's BORNING.