Lileks points to two interesting posts. I'm not sure I believe that the dots connect in the first, but the second makes a great deal of sense.

Michael Hirschorn's article for the The Atlantic Online, entitled "Get Me Rewrite! A modest proposal for reinventing newspapers for the digital age," does an excellent job of framing the problems that printed newspapers face and proposing an interesting direction that could save and even expand their presence in the digital age.