"The paper’s leaders failed to step into an online-era role that should have been theirs for the taking. The nature of that role is suggested by a scene in the Thatcher-era British sitcom “Yes, Prime Minister” in which a politician explains who actually reads the British papers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/douthat-how-the-post-was-lost.html?_r=0