It's already got a large native and transient population with their own agendas, habits, and history. Business is finding it has to adapt to that, not the other way around. The Internet is the future of mass entertainment and news. Of all the myths surrounding the Internet this one is probably both the most amusing and the most thoroughly exploded. There's a certain kind of media mogul that can only comprehend the Internet as a mass medium with accidental interactivity, cable television's smarter brother, a stronger opiate for the couch potatos of America.
Trouble is, nobody's buying.
Net-based news operations have a history of hemhorraging red ink to collapse. The techno-literacy problem can be solved in isolation. This is generally followed in the next breath by a demand for specific government interventions to get Internet access into the hands of disadvantaged kids. If we can solve the larger problem, which is the near-complete breakdown of education and civil society in the inner cities, this specific illiteracy problem will go away. If we can't, the kids who won't bootstrap themselves out using the Internet are probably going to be the same ones who wouldn't have had the brains and drive to do it without the Internet.