It takes a fair-sized ego to have large-sized humility, so Hearst exec and former San Francisco Chronicle executive editor Phil Bronstein (famous for other reasons, too) has an interesting way of looking at the challenges of newspapers.
He feels responsible.
He realizes now that he could have taken charge of the newspaper's destiny a little more readily by embracing, learning about and mastering the Internet when it was first revealed to him 17 years ago.
Having missed that opportunity, Bronstein writes an eloquent mea culpa and then proceeds to suggest the ingredient necessary going forward: Cooperation.
