Quote ="DaveO"Shame really. It has proved quite useful being able to link to the Torygraph just to show the Guardian isn't posting biased rubbish which is the usual accusation from certain posters whenever a link to a Guardian article is posted.
Hope the Guardian and Indy remain free and can make some money from their web sites now the competition is dwindling.'"
I think it would be difficult for the Guardian and Independent to use the paywall model. Most of their readers are lefties that would balk at the idea at being forced to pay for news. The Times and Torygraph do have readers that are well off and more ideologically comfortable with the idea that you should pay for a product you regard as being quality.
The real threat to all newspapers is blogs, some political blogs have well written content and it is free from an editorial agenda. If you want to read articles on the economy for instance you can access far better blogposts from the various economics academic bloggers, all for free, easily accessible if you follow links from Twitter, than the economics commentary in the newspapers.