I was getting my taxes done in Burbank today and actually picked up the LA times. It was the first time I picked up an actually newspaper in 3 to 5 years. I thumbed through it and noticed most of the stories I read on free republic within the last 72 hours. Newsprint is dead.
I was talking with my brother-in-law a few weeks ago and he had just heard some "new" piece of "breaking" news (I wish I could remember what it was) on CNN or something like that, I looked at him and told him I had known about it for almost a week. Look at what happened with Dan Ratherbiased and Memogate, FReepers knew all about it before there was any mention in the media.