Cutting their way to greatness*

The new Los Angeles Times looks a good deal like the old one.

It was cut or be cut for Editor James O'Shea and he got cut. And there's still the matter of finding $4 million in savings and not much of a hide left to slice it from.

Journalism is so 20th century.

*LA Observed chronicles the ugliness.

Hello, Sam

A snippet from today's Baltimore Sun story chronicling Sam Zell's takeover of Tribune:

Zell pledged to give local managers more control, in contrast to Tribune's centralized management style.

I wonder what this will mean for David Hiller and Jim O'Shea at the Los Angeles Times. Of course, pledging isn't the same as doing.