Well said Megan Schucht.  We need good local journalism, and subscribing to a paper does more good than complaining all the time. Lets' face it, they need our money-- and advertisers' money-- to keep operating, and these are lean times.
 I enjoy the Register Guard  for what it is, a pretty good local paper, and I'm glad we still  have a daily print edition.  I appreciate the hard work of their professional journalists during this difficult period for the print media.
But I don't expect to get all my local news from the RG-- there's also the Eugene Weekly and out here we have the Fern Ridge Review.  There's also the Oregonian on-line, KLCC and numerous other sources if one wants to be a well-informed citizen. 
This doesn't mean I'll stop criticizing the RG when I think they've got it wrong!