Quote, unquote: The Atlantic's owner buckles his swash

“We don’t want to be the Royal Navy. We want to be the pirate ship attacking the Royal Navy. I’m bearish on print, including our own. It is an inexorable trend that has to be met with some very radical changes.”

-- David G. Bradley, the owner of Atlantic Media, quoted in a story by the New York Times's David Carr on Atlantic Media's digital-only launch Quartz and his disillusionment with the economics of traditional ink-on-paper publishing.