Sun-set in Baltimore?

When I first came to Baltimore, there was the Evening Sun and the Sun.  The Evening Sun disappeared and slowly but surely the newspaper business in Baltimore is fading away like a sunset.  

The recent sacking of over 50 more Baltimore Sun employees may not mean the death of the paper (at least not yet), however the paper's quality and quantity of local coverage is waning. 

The Chicago-based Tribune company bought the Sun and it has been the demise of the Tribune, which entered bankruptcy, that has dragged the once proud Baltimore Sun down with it.  When the Tribune bought the Sun many local journalists and other media people warned that the local staff of the paper would be pared down.  This did happen and with readership down and the explosion of online media and the tools to access it, many local papers are feeling the pressure to change how they operate. 

The Sun is getting thin on content and the content is being surrounded on all sides by advertising.  The loss of a paper is not the end of the world and the news will still get reported. I am assuming that there is a new business model for getting people the news.  With Blackberry and Iphone users on the rise, the ability to capture that market will be the new battle.  The interesting thing is that all of the online media (not all but quite a bit) is controlled by such a few people.  I am hoping that a local owner will try to bring the Sun back.  I am not sure if that will happen but I think the people of Baltimore would support it.

I was wondering how you get your daily dose of news?  Do you still read the newspaper or do you just go online?  If the Sun became locally owned and operated again would you subscribe?

Let me know your POV about this... dg