The NYT's David Carr had a column published Monday in which he listed some ways that newspapers could address their business woes -- which, as I've noted below, are considered overblown by some.

However, I think Carr got this right:

Whatever the solution, the capacity to produce accountability reporting, investigative journalism and robust coverage of public officials is not sustainable under current revenue models. And that is not a business problem; it’s a civic one.

Media economics pundit Robert H. Picard asks this rhetorical question: "Have journalists gone mad?" He then proceeds to lay out a case why things are less bleak than they seem.

An analyst predicts that between now and 2010, many U.S. cities will change to one-newspaper towns from two -- and some will end up as no-newspaper towns.

Email has been eclipsed by social networking sites as an online activity, a report finds.

Movieline is to be staffed up with former Defamer people, who will apparently try to train themselves to be less gratuitously cruel.

Daily Show host Jon Stewart has had a running battle with U.S. financial network CNBC for the past week. Salon's Gabriel Winant tuned in to the network to see what the fuss was about. He left with his head spinning.