Reading about the San Jose Mercury's pragmatic decision to close or sell its two ethnic-language dailies, the Spanish-language Nuevo Mundo and the Vietnamese Viet Mercury, I want to just scream "move them to the web!"
My yelp would not be addressed to Knight Ridder, which has its own business issues--and plans--to manage--but to the local readers and community--who could create the means to launch local ethnic web sites--and print digital editions or broadsheets on demand, as Advance Internet did with an Indian-language broadsheet in Jersey, oh,10 years ago.
Folks, if you fear a vacuum, why not fill it?