Slate
Given his solid professional reputation, new Los Angeles Times editor
James O'Shea has no incentive to cap his career by going down as the guy who chain-sawed the paper to higher profitability, says
Jack Shafer. But when O'Shea assumes control of the Times on Monday, "he should write himself a note reminding himself that there will be no point to whittling the paper to fiscal perfection unless he also makes it better, which won't be easy given
Dean Baquet's successes, or more commercial," writes Shafer.
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Chicago Trib staffers give O'Shea a toy shield, plastic body armor (CT)
