The Curious Capitalist | Los Angeles Times
Justin Fox says the "stop giving away the store"
argument is mostly a red herring for newspapers, because they were already giving away the store before the Internet came along. "Among general interest publications in the US, only a few (the NYT, the New Yorker, and People are the three that spring immediately to mind) charge serious money for print subscriptions."
... publications listed are not newspapers, they are weekly magazines....