John Gruber responds to the previously-linked David Simon plan to have newspapers charge for all their content:

The primary problem with newspaper companies isn’t their revenue. It’s the size and scope of their operations. Again I say: mammals and dinosaurs. Simon, along with everyone else who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper industry, is effectively arguing that the world will change to support newspapers. The truth is that newspapers must change to adapt to the world. Just because the extinction of newspapers would be a tragic loss doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

We’ve seen boatloads of layoffs at some major newspapers, and it’s not clear that those have saved them. Perhaps they were laying off the wrong people.