L.A. Times shakeup

The Los Angeles Times has fired its top editor, James O'Shea, because he refused to make newsroom budget cuts.

According to this New York Times article on the topic, this is the fourth time in three years that a top editor or publisher has been dismissed for ignoring budget cut requests.

Here is the L.A. Times coverage of the story.

Did O'Shea and the others make the correct financial decision by ignoring budget cuts? I don't know.

What I do know is that I respect these four men for standing up for the paper. They did not approve of the cuts and the way the Tribune Company ran the paper -- and they made it known.
If these are the kind of people running our country's newsrooms then perhaps newspapers are better off than we think.

Or perhaps they are in greater danger than ever.