The importance of newspapers

In looking at the Plain Dealer coverage of Gerald McFaul, it's hard to imagine another organization that could have dug so far to discover the extent, duration and depth of the corruption in that office. While I am guilty of cancelling delivery of the daily PD, I still subscribe to the Sunday edition. Cleveland.com and Ohio.com (the Beacon Journal's site) are still where I find my local news, but I am VERY concerned about the future of our towns if the newspapers decline to a point where they can't report the hard news anymore.