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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Some problems solve themselves.
Is it that pesky "sequester" thingie?
The Koch brothers could buy The Hartford Courant for small change and not get too badly cheated.
that would seem to be the point...
why would they want to keep a bunch of commie losers there anyway?
Aw, c'mon, libs. Let's see 100 percent. Take out your own trash for us.
Too bad ALL of them won’t leave..Commie scum..whoever ends up buying the Slimes, release the damn Rashid Khalidi tape I want to see it already!
“Haven’t figured out they would be fired anyway...”
No, in their own demented minds, that actually think that they are worthwhile contributors to the Nation’s discourse, but they are most decidedly wrong!
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.There is a problem in that paragraph - namely, that its author assumes that the reporters at the Times are all more objective than the Koch brothers. That could be true, for the sake of argument - but anyone who assumes that they themselves - or anyone who agrees with them - is objective is not even trying to be objective. If you assume you are objective, you are unable to tell the other side of the story because you don’t believe that there legitimately is another side to the story. So any gesture in the direction of telling the other side will amount to no more than the setting up of a straw man.
Good......with they way they write a story they should be unemployed
Best possible news, but finding neutral reporters might be quite a task, considering all the left wing indoctrination in J-schools today.
Don't go away mad - just go away.
Seems to me that it would be the best thing that
could happen for the Koch brothers. Get rid of
the petrified log jam and bring in new blood.
Certainly there are people who need jobs out there.
They would probably be fired anyway.
Celebrate, celebrate! Dance to the music!
Very easy to talk tough, lets see what happens when they realize that print journalism is a dying business and no one needs to hire an extra 30 reporters.
Good. That way they won’t have to pay those libs severance pay!!!
If the words “Communications” or “journalism” appear anywhere on their resume, they are not qualified. Find people who have business experience to report on business issues, etc.
I hope they buy a LOT of these sleezy papers. Maybe the employees can go to work for Obama in his Ministry of Re-Education.
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