One can argue that new technologies require new ways of thinking about journalism. We let it happen, then ask if it's a good thing. And if the answer is no, too bad. It's a fait accompli . Tax law, accounting practices all support them in this.
Profits drop, cut costs.
That's one scenario. That's a little less than the daily Inquirer circulation. Remember that an entire European country replaced their telephone books with eentsy beentsy computers stuffed into erstwhile telephones. I love printing presses, but they're a vestigial, expensive peripheral device on the information engine known formerly as newspapers. And, were I a newspaper company or organization, I'd stop buying any and all Microsoft products, today.