Readers Keep Fleeing Biased L.A. Times

NewsMax ^ | 10/9/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Bias on the news pages of a paper is not only unethical and immoral, it's expensive. Just ask the hacks at the Democrat house organ known as the Los Angeles Times.

People are continuing to cancel subscriptions, embattled Times editor John Carroll admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle. He wouldn't give new numbers, but days ago the Times acknowledged a thousand cancellations.

Free-lance columnist Jill Stewart has revealed that since 1997, the rag had "been sitting on" reports of Gov. Gray Davis' history of violence against women. She noted the Times' hypocrisy in launching a partisan attack on Schwarzenegger sparked by far less serious accusations.

"It's nothing short of journalistic malpractice when a paper mounts a last-minute attack that can make or break one of the most important elections in California history," Stewart noted.

Carroll claims his rag looked into charges that Davis had been abusive toward female staff members and was not able to corroborate them. But if any anonymous person says Schwarzenegger made an off-color joke, that's suitable for Page One.

Carroll continues to duck the issue of another outrageous example of the paper's hypocrisy: burying and censoring news of Bill Clinton the rapist while trumpeting claims of Schwarzenegger the fondler.

And he is silent about publishing comments from Democrats six times rehashing the lie that Schwarzenegger admired Adolf Hitler even after the lie was exposed.

Fox News star Bill O'Reilly has pointed out, "There's no question the Times used its vast resources to try and keep Gray Davis in office."

Rep. Darrell Issa told the Chronicle: "John Carroll seems unrepentant for this act for which the voters are very angry. I would say no lesson has been learned.

"I'm disturbed that John Carroll does not represent a change for the Los Angeles Times. The press should hang its head in shame."

Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center (!) at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications, said, "I think this has been absorbed into the general loathing of the media."

And here's Carroll's knee-slapping response: "In the long run, I believe this will strengthen the paper's relationship with the readers."

To cancel a subscription to the L.A. Times, call 1-800-252-9141.

[Fraulein]

To cancel a subscription to the L.A. Times, call 1-800-252-9141.

LOL!

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[moodyskeptic]

Did it already. How do we find out the actual recent subscription drop?

[Emeraldbay]

You can also call the same number and ask to be put on a "Do Not Call" list.

If you don't have a subscription to cancel, that's almost as good!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I cancelled several years ago.

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Labyrinthos]

To cancel a subscription to the L.A. Times, call 1-800-252-9141.

Try this: Call the number and tell the person that you would like to cancel your subscription, even if you don't subscribe. When he or she responds that you can't be found in their data base and asks whether you're sure you have a subscription, admit that you don't and tell the person exactly why you never will.

[Dante3]

bttt

[Roarkdude]

Don't just cancel once. I like to call every couple months and cancel again. I tell the operator that I'd like to cancel again, they get confused, I make them confirm my previous cancellation and then I say "Great. Is there any way I can cancel again cause I really want to be sure the my subscription is cancelled." It's sophomoric fun, but I like it.

[CometBaby]

The best part is that they can forget about reclaiming the loss. Those people are going to turn to the internet for their news. Probably a lot of them will come here.

[Az Joe]

Here's another number to tell them your "feelings" about their "sluderage".

818-846-0313

They have heard from me three times so far this week.

[Carry_Okie]

Usually a newspaper gives you a free trial period. Ask for the free trial and THEN cancel.

That really costs them.

[passionfruit]

I live in Orange County. Yesterday the LA Times came down our street aln left a copy of their paper on every driveway. I'm sure that it was out of desperation that they would do a free paper dump on millions of unsuspecting Southern Californians. I also was telemarketed by them two nights ago. They are hurting.

In hindsight I should have called them to come pick up the trash they left behind.

[ironman]

Shame on you two.

[TJC]

Same here. It's trash day here in H.B. Guess where the LA Slimes ended up.

[ralph rotten]

I sure feel bad that I "ralph rotten" can not cancel the LA-times--because i cancel when the bas___ed when they sued Freerepublic and used the money saved ,to send to JIM

[cookcounty]

"Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center (!) at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications, said, "I think this has been absorbed into the general loathing of the media."

Now there's the kind of penetrating insight that makes the Norman Lear Center so valuable.

[So Cal Rocket]

I live in Orange County. Yesterday the LA Times came down our street aln left a copy of their paper on every driveway. I'm sure that it was out of desperation that they would do a free paper dump on millions of unsuspecting Southern Californians. I also was telemarketed by them two nights ago. They are hurting.

In hindsight I should have called them to come pick up the trash they left behind

LOL... I got a copy in my driveway yesterday too... ironically, the paper was three days old... I DID call them and told them if they did that again, I would register a complaint with the police department that they were littering!

[So Cal Rocket]

By the way, Robert Scheer, avowed communist and columnist for the LA Times is a Professor at USC's Annenberg School of Communication...

[willgolfforfood]

Or try this:

Call and cancel. Tell them you are "John Smith", and see if they will give you an address - "The John Smith on Maple Street?". Tell them "yes" and get John's paper cancelled.

He'd probably thank you, if he knew how.