Yet to widespread surprise, including his family's, Mr Chandler soon set about turning the Times into a serious, intelligent and broadly fair-minded paper better suited to the increasingly varied people now pouring into southern California, not all of whom were as vacuous and unlettered as their reputation supposed.

ECONOMIST: Otis Chandler

It said it would maintain the Express as a broad-based national paper but "draw new readers from among 18 to 34, intelligent independent-minded females".

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