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Report: Half of staff may quit LA Times if right-wing Koch brothers buy paper
Hot Air ^ | April 30, 2013 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 04/30/2013 1:25:10 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Call their bluff. Break the left’s media monopoly. Then rename the paper the “Los Angeles Kochtopus,” just to spite them.

At a Los Angeles Times in-house awards ceremony a week ago, columnist Steve Lopez addressed the elephant in the room…

Facing the elephant trunk-on, “Raise your hand if you would quit if the paper was bought by the Koch brothers.” About half the staff raised their hands.

Perhaps one brave Times reporter would go public with a story killed by the new owners. She would lose her job, and it would be written about in The New York Times. And, it would pressure the LA Times owners to be more objective. But many of the people working at the Times support a family or are still developing their careers and can’t afford to lose their jobs — especially in a town with few job opportunities for newspaper journalists.

If half the staff quit under Koch ownership, that would leave half as many people likely to stand up to the owners — not to mention a huge loss of talented journalists who have built a wealth of LA knowledge and relationships over years of experience.

Half may be an underestimate. According to lefty Harold Meyerson, “A recent informal poll that one L.A. Times writer conducted of his colleagues showed that almost all planned to exit if the Kochs took control (and that included sportswriters and arts writers).” Cheap bravado among like-minded liberals or a bona fide threat? There’s only one way to know for sure.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: koch; lat
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To: Hojczyk; Jim Robinson

That’d be a heck of an improvement!


21 posted on 04/30/2013 1:29:16 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Hojczyk
“Raise your hand if you would quit if the paper was bought by the Koch brothers.” About half the staff raised their hands.

BS. There is no place for these untalented, unskilled, unproductive drones to go.

Well, except if they can find a government job.

22 posted on 04/30/2013 1:29:18 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Hojczyk

Saves the trouble of firing them.


23 posted on 04/30/2013 1:29:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: Hojczyk

buh-bye


24 posted on 04/30/2013 1:29:31 PM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Hojczyk
“Raise your hand if you would quit if the paper was bought by the Koch brothers.” About half the staff raised their hands.

Meanwhile, a Koch Brothers accountant is revising Unemployment Compensation fee cost estimates DOWNward.
25 posted on 04/30/2013 1:30:05 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
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To: Hojczyk

Half is a good start.


26 posted on 04/30/2013 1:30:08 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Hojczyk

judging from the slanted “news” they print (both about national and California issues),
half that staff quitting would be
one half
of a solution


27 posted on 04/30/2013 1:30:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: nickcarraway

I agree they aren’t right wing but if they can put out a straight arrow newspaper it will be an improvement.


28 posted on 04/30/2013 1:30:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Hojczyk

They won’t quit. Libs don’t leave jobs like that. Where else would these ass clowns go? They may get fired though! Much more satisfying!!


29 posted on 04/30/2013 1:30:19 PM PDT by albie (s)
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To: Hojczyk

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.


30 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:07 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Hojczyk

Sounds like those celebrities who vow to leave the country if so and so is elected, yet never make good on their promises.


31 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:14 PM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: Hojczyk

I call that a win,win.


32 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:26 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Hojczyk

Good, that will save them a ton of $$$ in unemployment comp.


33 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Hojczyk

Buy the paper. Let half quit. Rename it the Reagan Times. Hope that the other half quits. Fire the ones that are left.


34 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:36 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Hojczyk
What's the downside?
35 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Hojczyk
Go ahead

dare I say it?

MAKE MY DAY!!!

36 posted on 04/30/2013 1:31:47 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: Hojczyk

Not seeing the problem


37 posted on 04/30/2013 1:32:07 PM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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To: VR-21

They won’t do that but they are prepared to slice off their noses.


38 posted on 04/30/2013 1:32:08 PM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: Hojczyk

And the other half will be fired.

Now THAT would be a good start.


39 posted on 04/30/2013 1:32:50 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Hojczyk

I bid $4.00 for the artwork on the sixth floor.


40 posted on 04/30/2013 1:32:52 PM PDT by onedoug
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