Diminishing Ad Revenues

Newspapers have been in trouble for a while, and the idea of just how in trouble they are always bums me out. Maybe I'm a romantic (well, exactly I'm a romantic, but whatever), but I put a lot of stock in what the daily newspaper represents to the development of society and the United States over the course of history. So when I see a story like this, about how newspapers have just undergone the biggest decrease in ad revenues in five decades, I wish it weren't true.