DOING THE JOB THAT NEWSPAPERS SHOULD BE DOING:  Web Sites That Dig for News Rise As Watchdogs. “As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover.”  I keep saying that hard news reporting is the Killer App for old media, but they don’t seem to want to do it.