Now for my real reply...
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>>>I think this is all a good thing. First of all, papers need so much advertising revenue that more than half their bulk is adverts now. So we pay to cut down MORE trees, to keep the papers in biz, so they can cut down even more. A vicious downward spiral Personally I can't wait for their demise. Like you say, who actually needs them (other than for, as Tamar says, the "feel" of a wad of crisp paper in the hands at the breakfast table or on the bus/train), with all the other media that are around today (which were not when a paper was essential). Take this "experience" away from a generation and what they've never had they won't miss.
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>>I agree they will disappear, but I will still be sad to see them gone.
>>And I agree that the next generation won't miss them.
>>But it will be a different kind of "news" than we are used to today, too, because it will have little in the way of local news
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>Oh, I don't know. There could still be your favourite local newspaper beamed to you in your home.

You clipped an important part. Anyway... a "local" newspaper is, in my opinion, highly unlikely, simply because of the costs of production versus possible revenue. It will become exclusively a corporate thing, which of course means BIG corporation, headquartered in some tax sheltered country and workers being mainly in China (India for now).
It's doubtful that smaller town reporters, who will basically all be freelancers, will be able to live on what the corps. will pay them. Thus the disappearance of local news.

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>>>They can still get advertising revenue by downloading advert pages to your "daily tablet" (of whatever form) for which you subscribe.
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>>Right... until a pre-scan is developed to remove it. How many people will wilfully download advertising?
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>Are you able to stop all the ad banners and come with your internet pages? (pop-ups maybe)

Only because no one has found the market yet. They will.
I'm told that skipping the commercials is one of the valued features of "TIVO".