Sadly, I think they may be right. I won't read a newspaper online or on my Sony Reader; I want the paper version. OTOH, my son only reads the newspaper online and won't buy a print version. His philosophy is that if it isn't available online, it isn't worth reading (speaking of newspapers and magazines -- with books, he still reads the print version).
I guess I'm old enough to distrust online sources for my news intake. I figure it is easy for malhackers to make the real surreal even in newspapers online, which gives a leg up to the reliability of the print version (not that it doesn't have its own malwriters
).