Posted on 04/01/2013 3:36:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Protesters were set to gather Monday in downtown Los Angeles to urge the owners of the Los Angeles Times not to sell the newspaper to “political propagandists”.
Members of the self-described “progressive” Courage Campaign along with MoveOn.org and Daily Kos launched an online petition demanding the Tribune Company, publishers of the L.A. Times, to reconsider a rumored sale to billionaire businessmen David and Charles Koch.
Protesters were expected to deliver some 100,000 Californian signatures calling on Tribune Company President Peter Liguori “to refuse to sell the paper to political propagandists” to the company’s headquarters near City Hall Park before 2:00 p.m.
An L.A. Times advertisement sponsored by the Courage Campaign alleges the Koch brothers are “climate change deniers, Tea Party funders and election buyers” that will transform the venerable paper into “another Fox News.”
While the Koch brothers have refused to comment on speculation of any possible sale, other big-name potential suitors reportedly include News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and billionaire Eli Broad, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to the Times, the Tribune owns the Chicago Tribune, other newspapers and several radio and TV stations. The company sought bankruptcy protection in 2008 after a leveraged buyout that was engineered by billionaire Sam Zell, and which an examiner said likely included fraud, according to the Associated Press
I can’t figure out if this is just a straight case of irony, or if it is a small case of irony mixed with loads of stupidity?
Do they not see the irony of that statement?
I hate April fools day!
Instead of it being another Pravda like it is now?
F them.
It is Orwell brought to life.
What does that mean, it might become successful?
I don’t think FNC is “conservative” at all.
This is a case of fear. The leftards fear that the Koch brothers would turn this dying paper into a going concern by veering to the right.
I simply will not buy my local paper (a Gannett fish wrap) because the editorial board consistently endorses positions that are wrong for the community.
If they were so sure of their position they would be happy to see the Koch’s lose their shirts.
The proper fear would be that it would turn into 'Another New York Post'.
Fox News is a broadcast station. The LA Times is a newspaper.
Sheesh!
If all those people attached their signatures to a subscription, maybe the paper wouldn't have to sell. That's the only petition that really means anything in business.
Supposedly there’s a new conservative network to air this summer.. America One? One America?
Probably half of FNC’s staff will defect (the half WE want) if
this really happens.
We need to own the message, which requires that we own the messenger.
No. They don't. Liberalism is the default ideology. Their overlords at the DNC see it, of course. But these fools can't.
Marxists like to flatter themselves that they matter to businessmen.
It’s a joke, really.
My question was rhetorical but, of course you are correct. The leftists simply lack intellectual depth to connect the dots.
The three protesting groups mentioned can go to Hell.
L A Times has been slanted and untrustworthy in its “news” reportage for years. Useful only for its (many) ads.
The editorial positions of every newspaper in America fifty years ago would be considered right wing today. The pendulum keeps swinging...
... when they were blown up, allegedly by labor union activists ...
The PBS documentary about the Times is biased but worth watching. If you come upon a beautiful landscape, think twice before you develop it, you may not get what you want in the end.
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