For many, the local newspaper isn't dying - it's already dead

[Commentary] What will happen to a city when the last major newspaper dies? If you are white, and probably a male, you may not have noticed that we've been living in this doomsday scenario for years, if not decades. For African Americans, Native Americans, Asian, Latino... or gays... or under 25... or female... they know that their communities have been, and continue to be, routinely left out of their newspaper. They typically make the news for holidays, crime or food. For many of them, newspapers aren't dying... they're already dead.