Papers must charge for websites to survive

[Comentary] You don't get free gas from a gas station. You don't get free meals from a restaurant. So why is the newspaper industry the only one in America that is expected to give its product ... in its electronic version ... away for free? Wrestling with that question will determine the fate of this nation's newspapers. Our answer: except for the "Big Four" national players, newspapers will not survive unless they 1) convert out of print and totally into the Internet, 2) confine themselves to local news and, most importantly, 3) charge for it.