Again, things aren't so bad. NAA put out a news release today stating the following:
"Advertising expenditures for newspaper Web sites increased by 19.3 percent to $796 million in the second quarter versus the same period a year ago, according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America. The increase reflects the thirteenth consecutive quarter of double digit growth for online newspaper advertising since NAA started reporting online ad spending in 2004."
See the full release here.
And speaking of warm fuzzies, there's a new book out from faculty at the University of Missouri called "What Good is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors are Saving America's Way of Life". According to the Mizzou press release, "Through stories of real people, the chapters trace the development of free expression through American history and show how the principles of journalism that Americans take for granted are playing a revolutionary role in emerging democracies." I just heard about it today, so I thought I'd pass it along.