Well said, Mr. Scocca. After hacking my way through forests of copy on the Simon/Sun dispute, I think I finally get it. Like a lot of people in the news business, I understood Simon's anger at the decline of newspapers, but couldn't grasp why he singled out Carroll and Marimow as the villains, given their stellar reputations as journalists. But it appears that the "excellence" they brought to the Sun was a generic, journalism-school variety -- imported wholesale rather than homegrown. So while the Sun appeared to be "much improved" in the eyes of the rest of the news business, perhaps it wasn't in the eyes of Baltimoreans.