According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, the internet has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.

Jeff Jarvis is -- as usual -- right on target with this post that pillories Los Angeles Times staffers for suing Tribune owner Sam Zell when their own complacency and hubris over the past 15+ years is at least as much to blame. Far too many journalists are whiny, arrogant, cynical and hyper-critical -- that hard-wired suspicion, pessimism and self-regard can be a huge help when channeled into thorough, dogged reporting, but it's a royal pain when it comes to life in the newsroom.

That said, it's worth noting that the LA Times actually has been an innovator and experimenter in the world of online journalism. Way back in the early 1990s -- when the paper was still the Times Mirror Corp. flagship -- it launched TimesLink, a subscription-based online news service on the Prodigy platform.