<i>This is their hail-Mary pass, if the subscription model does not work what are they supposed to do next?</i><p>Put someone competent in charge of the paper and removing quality articles and placing ads in the paper instead. Also, go back to a format that resembles a newspaper that has news in it, rather then tabloid newspapers. I used to read Newsday on a daily basis.<p>It took approximately a month under the Dolans (current owners) for my subscription to be canceled due to the reasons above. If the problems were fixed, I'd gladly go back to reading Newsday instead of switching between the Times and the Daily News.<p>Because currently, this isn't a story of a <i>news</i>paper dying. Its a story of the <i>tabloids</i> dying. And good riddance; perez hilton and the ilk don't need syndication.