The Publisher Answers To The Editor? WTF?

Andrew Sullivan finds an item that should be of immense interest to the news industry. But it probably won't notice.
I figure anything that lionizes Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo is incredibly insightful and cutting edge. TPM has been my first stop daily since I gave myself over to this addiction.
Oddly, the newspaper where I worked for 20 years had an organizational structure that included no publisher until about ten years ago. We peons never really saw much difference because direct interference, when there was any — and there was some at least — only fell indirectly on us. If the business side was dictating editorial policy, nobody actually said it out loud in our presence.
But there was intermittent evidence on occasion.