John S. Carroll, the L.A. Times editor who swept away the Staples mess and then walked out rather than strip down his newsroom, used the time after his exit to survey the capsized world of newspapers. This was the only world he had ever known; the news was in his blood. His father, Wallace Carroll, had been the beloved Washington editor of the New York Times and later the editor and publisher of the newspaper in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His son too had never wanted to be anything other than a newspaper editor. As John mulled over the problems facing his beloved industry, he concluded the
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