The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling

Print newspapers, as everyone knows, are having a hard time, and you can see the New York Times getting sadly thinner each week.

But I can't figure out whether the people they found to feature in today's stories

Eli Peli in: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04prof.html?ref=science

and

Flora Mora in http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/business/04frustrate.html?ref=business

are an attempt to extend their science and business audience to children as well as adults, or are the a more subtle message about the predicament the publishers of the newspaper find themselves in?