You said: "Is the newspaper dying effecting our democracy? Yes it is! But it doesn't have to negatively effect us. A democracy is directed by or for the people, so instead of having it be for the people, lets do it ourselves and use online newspapers and blogs to speak our minds about what is going on in our world. "
Now, I think you were right when you said that being online and able to speak our minds promotes democracy, but I don't think the newspaper's death will bear any negativity upon our way of life significantly. For people who have been used to the newspaper their whole life is going to have some troubles, but they're old anyways, right?
It's just a paradigm shift that's all, and once people learn to enjoy the superb ease of consuming information online through various sources instead of one bulky newspaper this discussion will be done.
You also stated that online news is more apt to make mistakes when reporting because they are eager for speed, instead of fact checking. But a wonderful feature that often can be seen on breaking news stories (like earthquakes, terrorist attacks), are updated pages. Instead of posting a brand new story to retract or redefine what they had said earlier, the news organization will just edit the original page with fresh information. Newspapers can't do that.
I remember old movies about the future and they always showed newspapers having videos and interactive stuff, and I laugh because we have all that cool stuff now and more, just not in paper form.
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