Death Knell of the Media Barons?

With Knight-Ridder no more and major city newspapers on the block, is the era of the internet finally at hand? No less an authority than Rupert Murdoch thinks so. Today's Guardian has the media baron "comparing today's internet pioneers with explorers such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot."

"Power is moving away from the old elite in our industry - the editors, the chief executives and, let's face it, the proprietors," Murdoch said.

Now that makes me, plugging along here in obscurity, feel much bertter. As the old saying goes, from his lips to God's ear.