Does it need the competition from news aggregators and blogs to further the decline of classic journalism? I don’t think so.

Take a look at the following screenshot. It was taken from the website of German weekly DIE ZEIT.

For our English readers follows a rough translation:
“SOCIETY”
[Picture]
“Police arrested the wrong person”

“The first success of a manhunt already turned out to be insubstantial after a few hours. The suspect arrested on Friday night is already free again.”

They don’t even tell you what the story is about! Everybody learns that in 5th grade: What, when, where, how many, why or something like that.

As far as I’m concerned, all major German newspapers have failed in their attempt to set up successful websites.