I wish I’d thought of this first. But I didn’t. So instead, here’s 10 Reasons You’ll Actually Miss Newspapers, by Dan Frommer on businessinsider.com (he’s got it illustrated one picture per item, too, worth clicking on the original just for the pictures):

1. Starting a fire
2. Wrapping presents
3. Espionage (that one really needs the picture, a guy with a newspaper hiding his face).
4. Pet bedding
5. Papier-mâché
6. Feeling good about recycling them
7. Wrapping fish and chips
8. Party hats
9. Around the house (needs some examples; the picture shows newspaper crushed around the edge of an air conditioner)
10. Quality international and investigative journalism. Dan adds:

Sure, today’s new, lean-staffed Web publishers are good at reporting and analyzing the news back home. But who’s going to staff the Baghdad bureau?

And I say, really? Baghdad bureau? Today’s new lean-staffed Web publishers are good at reporting and analyzing the news here in the United States?