Two things:

1. Jarvis never blamed the current state of print entirely on reporters. He was reacting to a piece by Farhi that said, in essence, "it's not our fault." The passage quoted was tearing into the notion that reporters and editors are entirely blameless for the current sutuation and that it was all on the "bean-counters," who can always be counted on to provide a meaty target for those unwilling to even consider that newspapers have both a product problem and a business model problem.

2. Jarvis never "endorsed" the 35-person newsroom. That number came from a breakout session - which I participated in - in which the exercise was to think about how small a metro newsroom could be and still function. Clearly, 35 was a tough figure, but it served a purpose: It got those of us in the room thinking hard about how the hell we would produce a daily news web site (not paper) with so few FTEs. I don't remember the exact numbers, but a fair chunk of those 35 were set aside to organize, mobilize and edit citizen journalists, so even the 35 number would be amplified with many more feet on the street. Can it be done? We may yet find out. But did Jarvis trumpet this as the solution? Hell no.