February 21, 2012

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about John Paton, the “old media” CEO of MediaNews Group who’s been giving fiery speeches of late about “stacking digital dimes against print dollars.” Most recently, he gave his usual stump speech, but added a commentary on getting rid of “crappy newspaper executives,” which has some good — and bad — advice for niche digital publishers.Paton has it right when he says that newspapers can’t do things the…