There was a famous description of conservative ideology as a "man standing athwart history, shouting stop!" Well, that would make a fine description of this gathering of newspaper moguls:

There's no mention on its website but the Newspaper Association of America, the industry trade group, has assembled top executives of the New York Times, Gannett, E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises and Freedom Communication Inc., among more than two dozen in all. A longtime industry chum, consultant Barbara Cohen, "will facilitate the meeting."

The problem is pretty well described by Doc Searls - these guys are trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again - sort of like the RIAA tried, and the MPAA is still trying, to do. It won't work out any better for them.