Steve Lacywas an American jazz saxophonist and composer... (wikipedia)
The one thing we know for sure is when competition for something increases, the percentage of the market any one business has will decline.
Seattle is not a big enough city to support two separately owned and operated dailies indefinitely.
He was always pretty intense. It wouldn't surprise me if this happens again at some point in his career.
The president of Tribune Broadcasting once said they are reaching the same amount of people as they did years ago, but doing it with three times the products. People these days expect choice. Those who provide content have to give people choice, or they're going to lose consumers.
As long as the family is interested in journalism, you're OK.
If you keep control, you can be as idiosyncratic as you want to be.
The industry isn't dying. The industry is adjusting. What that means is, there's not a need for as many daily newspapers as there was.