Have newspapers buried themselves...?

 "Newspapers need to launch a national campaign to remind people
  how vital they are — while there are still papers left to run the story.
  In the futurist nightmare “Fahrenheit 451,” firemen are enlisted to
  burn all books and periodicals. In our real future, we won’t need to
  call fire fighters to banish newspapers. The newspapers seem to
  be doing it for us."

Article here: Have newspapers buried themselves in banality?