PaidContent points to an intriguing LA Times column titled "Next: Google Street Journal." Concluding his ruminations about the state of affairs in an offline news-publishing world confronting the online assault, columnist Andrés Martinez writes: "It's only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company in order to differentiate itself by offering high-quality, proprietary news. Or a company like Amazon could buy a prestigious newspaper publisher and reinvent itself as a portal, leapfrogging over those that treat news updates as a commodity…. Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is a steal these days, with a market capitalization below $3 billion."