My suggestion for a new LA Times publisher

graham capoteShe turned out, against all expectations, to have balls of steel. She had the highest journalist principles and trusted her staff to get things right. She even had a tolerance for difficult writers, like Truman Capote (photographed together here in 1966, at the Black & White ball).

The only thing bad about Katharine Graham is that she’s dead.

Come to think of it, even dead, she might be a good choice for publisher.

About the author

I like sitting in Jack Webb's booth.