In terms of what it's doing to editorial staff, these are not horrible cuts. All three of these papers have fairly fat staffs compared with most other papers, if you take the rule of thumb of one editorial employee for every 1,000 [in] circulation.

You need to know what's for sale and what isn't. Allowing [ads and editorial content] to get blurred, however you do it, is in the long run inimical to a newspaper's reputation - and probably to its business.

When Tribune acquired Times Mirror they acquired papers with much lower operating profits than Tribune papers have traditionally thrown off. The L.A. Times has a larger staff than is typical for that size of paper. They've been trying to address that without appearing to be a slash-and-burn company.

I'm sure Sherman is not going to be a happy camper at 65 bucks, which is the price that's been talked about a lot. It would serve (him) right. He got this all started.

It's horrible. It's not what she needed.

The way we are positioning now, we are starting to talk now, not in terms of devices but in terms of systems and systems parameters.