In difficult times, it can be hard to distinguish innovation from desperation. These days of digital disruption are about as rugged a period as the American newspaper industry ever has experienced. It still ought to be clear, though, that Tribune Publishing’s decision last week to blend the jobs of editor and publisher at its newspapers—including the Los Angeles Times—falls into something worse than the desperate category. How much worse? The analytic philosopher Saul Kripke once declined to review a colleague’s paper for an important journal and, when asked why, is said to have replied, “It’s so far off the mark, it isn’t ...
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