WASHINGTON – Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden’s footsteps.

The latest echo of doom arrived a few days ago: U.S. newspaper circulation dropped 10 percent from April through September, compared to the same period last year. The largest decrease recorded thus far, the decline was attributed to the usual – advertising and readership lost to the Web. Industrywide, ad revenues, which constitute newspapers’ main source of income, have dropped $20 billion from three years ago. Even so, most newspapers rem...

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