How to save the ailing Los Angeles Times

Michael Kinsley, former Los Angeles Times opinion editor, wonders why the Tribune Co. bothered to pay $8 billion for his newspaper without having any grand plan for the group. He sympathises, to an extent, with Tribune's attempts to reduce staffing and slates his colleagues for resisting the logic of achieving economies of scale by integrating with other Tribune titles. Indeed, he suggests a giant Tribune integration would be a solution to the paper's problems, creating a national super-paper to compete with the New York Times and USA Today. "Call it the National Tribune," writes Kinsley. (Via Los Angeles Times)