Preparations for the future

This may be the best description I've heard of the incremental fixes being undertaken by many newspapers:

But to look at a typical American metro newspaper, regardless of format, and think the most dramatic thing you can do to pump life into it is change the size of the paper itself? Is that the best we can do?

I'm sorry, but that's like shrinking a three-foot hemorrhoid to one foot: if the former is your problem, the latter is not your answer.