If ever there was clear evidence of the failure of bureaucratic journalism, this is it…

From a comment on Reflections of a Newsosaur’s post: $7.5B sales plunge forecast for newspapers

If ever there was clear evidence of the failure of bureaucratic journalism, this is it. We have created newspapers groaning with executive editors, editors, managing editors, assistant managing editors, city editors, desk editors, copy editors and wire editors. What is needed is to clean out the bureaucracy that is has either blocked or slowed down necessary change. The recent redesign of the Chicago Tribune was overseen by a committee of 37 of these editors. No wonder it was so dull. With their six-figure salaries and prized glassed-in offices, the bureaucracy is choking off the oxygen newspapers need to survive.