Quote, unquote: defending markets, or else

"People in our industry have now begun to think that this is our Stalingrad. That if we don’t start to defend ourselves, if we don’t start to do what we best, then we will inevitably lose market, lose audience and someone else will start to do content as well as we do it."

-- David Montgomery, CEO of the London-based Mecom Group plc, explaining why his 300-title group had better smarten up. (Montgomery is former editor of the Sun, Daily Mirror, News of the World and Today.)