The smaller paper format of the New York Times is an affront to every long time reader of the print edition. As though less space for the news was bad enough, fewer letters and less Op-ED space lowers the discourse in the newspaper. Many read the Times because of their dedication to principles beyond petty economics. Not the men who add to the quality of their own living or that of their shareholders, but the men who deepen the quality of our living, are the real benefactors of the news. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. was no friend of the news today.