It was especially obvious when I found well-informed Web sites blogs that would intelligently dissect and contradict the bad "reporting" on the subject.
My point with this submission was to show that the unasked for advice that webby people always seem to be giving newspapers: "focus on your core strength, in depth reporting and expertise" isn't actually a new concept at all. Here's a major metropolitan daily basing an ad campaign around "Take an expert with you." I found that a little surprising.
Edit: I'd love to know why someone downvoted this comment.
That said - partisan, knee-jerk analysis on HN will only lead to HN being another Digg (with people only reading stories that reinforce preconceptions and congregating around certain users).
In the end, if you express an opinion that isn't based on data, and doesn't have anything else about how you reached the opinion, you will probably be modded down by someone.
Newspapers have always gotten a lot of content from press releases. Now that we can those from the source, and we can easily get things from other sources, few people are willing to pay for press releases on newsprint.