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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Fire them all and start fresh. You could easily find 1,000 conservative journalists and bloggers who’d work there. With the Internet, there’s no reason they’d all have to live in Southern California.
They say that like it’s a bad thang........
I would replace the big paper with four or five smaller papers that would be affordable to more advertisers and could better serve their respective communities. The smaller papers could be printed at the big plant. If practical some of the Washington, New York and foreign correspondents could be retained to serve all the new papers.
It may not be economically viable but neither is the current paper.
No need to pay severance!
It’s a start...
And sack the other 50%.
1) Talk’s cheap. These cowards wouldn’t have the guts to quit. That might mean they’d have to get real job. And MacDonald’s won’t hire people that untrainable.
2) If half of them quit, then the Kochs could replace them with journalists.
It’s a no-lose for the owners.
Good luck finding another job. Newspapers are disappearing-—fast
Its like Rupert and Ailes
Better than alternative
But not true
Its a start
Its like Wash Times
Moonies but better than zip
-PJ
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One of the reasons I quit the media 25 years ago was the unrelenting leftist bias.
If I was still working in the business, I’d go down there in a cold minute. I’d bet there are still folks out there who would, too.
Let the morons quit.
works for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think most of us or the Koch brothers will see this as a problem. It will probably save them from having to fire so many.
Hopefully the Koch brothers have announced that they can’t quit because they are fired.
Just more proof that liberals cannot be objective journalists. They are communist propagandists.
Cool. Saves the company from having to lay them off and pay a severance.
Of course, you know that the liberal morons who claim they will quit will not quit -- they will look for a reason to sue.
I hope the Koch brothers decide to buy the LA Times. Maybe I'll start reading it again!
That’s a start
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