Posted on 04/30/2013 1:25:10 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Call their bluff. Break the lefts 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 cant 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? Theres only one way to know for sure.
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That’d be a heck of an improvement!
BS. There is no place for these untalented, unskilled, unproductive drones to go.
Well, except if they can find a government job.
Saves the trouble of firing them.
buh-bye
Half is a good start.
judging from the slanted “news” they print (both about national and California issues),
half that staff quitting would be
one half
of a solution
I agree they aren’t right wing but if they can put out a straight arrow newspaper it will be an improvement.
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!!
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Sounds like those celebrities who vow to leave the country if so and so is elected, yet never make good on their promises.
I call that a win,win.
Good, that will save them a ton of $$$ in unemployment comp.
Buy the paper. Let half quit. Rename it the Reagan Times. Hope that the other half quits. Fire the ones that are left.
dare I say it?
MAKE MY DAY!!!
Not seeing the problem
They won’t do that but they are prepared to slice off their noses.
And the other half will be fired.
Now THAT would be a good start.
I bid $4.00 for the artwork on the sixth floor.
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