Since when does it make sense for gov't to aid traditional business in adopting new models to survive? http://tinyurl.com/cy3ajz?

It really depends on the situation. I think government intervention in the market makes sense when not intervening would harm the markets even more. For example, the government was forced to bail out the banking and insurance industry because if they didn't, it was very possible the entire banking system would collapse.

And that would be catastrophic for the country. Obviously nobody was happy with the cure, with injecting hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the banks, who messed up the situation to begin with. But not doing so would have hurt us quite a bit more.

Regarding the newspaper industry, as is in the link you provided, I think it's a stretch to say that Americans would be harmed more by not intervening. The 21st Century is very different from the previous one. The newspaper industry might just not be necessary anymore.It will be interesting to see what happens with the industry.

Right now, many papers are going under, and many more are barely surviving. But people seem to be just as informed as they were before.So we will have to wait and see how the situation develops. But to answer your question, I don't think it makes sense for government intervention in this case.

If the market is moving in one direction (away from newspapers), I don't think the government should force the market back in the other direction, against the market forces.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.