Burning Rome to save it

Back in 2005, an article in Forbes, the business magazine, asked, "Can The Tabloid Format Save Newspapers?" Newspaper circulation is still in free fall and the "tabloid" question is still being asked today. But is this not the wrong question? It's not whether the tabloid format can save newspapers (it might), but whether it should. Funny how that point never gets raised. Going tabloid is like burning down your neighbor's house to save it. Call it the Nero Solution. I wonder if this is the kind of thinking that started Rome towards its decline into ruin.