It was all sounding so good till the end: "namely the newspapers themselves". That hasn't been true for years! AP rewritten in the first person since the nineties, now bloggers ripped off without attribution. Anyway"News" per se does not need 'high end journalism'. Only investigative journalism needs a dedicated, paid workforce, and I don't see that sort of thing being killed off by the news aggregators. In The Back in Private Eye for example, will not be damaged, likewise the Sunday Papers in-depth stories. Trivial journalism for trivial news? Well if that dies we won't miss it.