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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My first thought, verbatim.
what’s the downside?
How is this a problem? I would expect the Koch brothers to send somebody in there to clean house and then hire some real journalists.
Ha! Ha!....Don’t let door hit ass on way out.
There is a great painting up there though. I don’t know who the artist was, but it’s a wall sized view from a cliff along a shadowy rocky coast. It really conveys a sense of motion, and the viewer can almost hear the seagulls. Too beautiful for those gumbas.
Post of the day.
The issue is, and always has been, the advertisers. The Left has always been better at organizing boycotts and sabotage against those they ideologically oppose. Companies don't want to be caught in the middle of anything "controversial". That's why, when Beck had his Fox program, the only advertisers you would see were gold firms and such. No car makers, nobody who sold their products in the supermarkets, just niche companies who didn't mind if no Leftist bought their product.
Short and graphic video of how it's done....Mishima and cohorts after taking over the Japan military headquarters in Tokyo...
I want a list of those promising to quit. Then I can cross them off. This way they can’t back out. Aholes.
So, half of the staff at LA Times are liars.
When they get done cleaning house at the LA Crimes, maybe they can come up the coast and do the same for the SF Comical and the San Jose Jerkery Snooze???
The news that half the L.A.Times staff would leave if Koch bought the paper should only encourage Koch to buy the paper. He can start with a smaller staff, one that was willing to work with him, and if he needed replacements for any that left he’d be able to pick who he wants.
...and for the women...the Dance of Zalongo....
For the dim women...the Dance of Zalongo
Trojans all.
Hopefully someone got a picture of that so they can be identified later.
I’d love to see the Koch brothers buy The Austin un-American, non-Statesman, Longhorn booster Pravda here. Ben Sergeant would have to leave town and Mike Ramirez would have a field day. Most subscribers would drop the paper, but I’d probably subscribe again.
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
Nothing to worry about - they can always get a job at the Herald Examiner.
...oh wait, they went out of business in 1989.
“talented journalist,” now there is an oxymoron.
Most of them wouldn’t follow through on the threat, and those that do would be easily replaced. There are plenty of out of work journalists from all the other newspapers that have gone out of business who would relocate at their own expense to work at the LA Times, no matter who owns it.
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