Newspaper Science Coverage in Decline

Could someone remind me what it is that newspapers still cover these days? NYT blogger Andrew C. Revkin:

Of course, the situation at CNN is hardly isolated. Newspaper coverage of science outside of health and wellness is steadily eroding. Even here at The Times, where the Science Times section celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2003 and management has always supported strong science coverage, we (like everyone in print media) are doing ever more with less. . . .

And then later:

In the mid 1980’s, early in my science-writing career, I was hired by the Los Angeles Times to be one of the first reporters for a planned weekly science section like the established Science Times of The New York Times. While things were getting set up, I was assigned a slot in the San Fernando Valley, reporting on everything from gasoline in the groundwater to a days-long hunt for Martina Navratilova’s lost dogs. Before my first year was up, the section was canceled.

I was told by management that the paper’s business side made the case that it was selling personal-computer ads in the sports section, so why did it need a science section?