Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think

[Commentary] Recent data provided newspaper lovers with fodder for despair and newspaper haters with fodder for glee. It might be a case of making too much of a few numbers and ignoring some important ones. First of all, there's nothing ipso facto shocking about a decline in patronage of 10 percent in six months. Many political blogs and cable news shows have seen their audiences fall by much more than 10 percent since the feverish fall of 2008. And advertising at plenty of online publications has fallen by a similar amount.