New owner of SD Union-Tribune sounding like a cheerleader

This interview with "Papa" Doug Manchester (the one with the craaaazy shirt) and CEO John Lynch should send chills down the spines of newsroom staffers. Both paid the perfunctory lip service to reporters having to report the news, but "Papa" Doug went on to suggest that some stories can be told, well, differently. From Fishbowl LA:

There is a difference between the paper's editorial pages and its news pages. News is news, editorial is for cheerleading. Manchester seemed like he was going to go there, but then backed off and spoke generically of news stories he remembers seeing that he thought should have taken different angles. The fact that this distinction was never clearly outlined last night tells us one of two things: either Manchester and Lynch have absolutely zero media savvy (as this is what every media watcher in Southern California has been waiting to hear) or they're so against the idea of newsroom independence they're willing to publicly torch the credibility of their paper.

Either way it's not looking good down south. Interview comes around the 20-minute mark.