The circulation figures for the LA Times are in dark blue below. See if you can spot a trend. Circulation should be well below 400,000 by now.
Posted on 09/08/2015 10:23:02 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Austin Beutner, the publisher and chief executive of The Los Angeles Times, is being dismissed Tuesday, with no replacement immediately named, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Beutner, a politically connected former investment banker who went on to become a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, was to be informed Tuesday morning but the news had leaked in advance of the meeting, said one person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive matter.
News of the impending departure was first reported by the website Capital New York.
The news came after internal dissent between the prestigious newspaper, the largest owned by its parent company, Tribune Publishing, and executives at Tribune’s headquarters in Chicago.
Tribune executives, this person said, were displeased at recent prominent hires made by Mr. Beutner, including the hiring of the Internet strategist Nicco Mele, who was appointed deputy publisher late last year, and Johanna Maska, a former Obama administration staff member who was appointed vice president for marketing and communications in April.
The executives, a person familiar with their thinking said, wanted control centralized in Chicago, were displeased with Mr. Beutner’s performance and suspected that he had his eye on a run for political office.
Mr. Beutner also oversaw The San Diego Union-Tribune, which Tribune Publishing bought this year, and he was said to be focusing on creating a strong, centralized Southern California operation, while Tribune executives wanted control to come from company headquarters.
Mr. Beutner, those familiar with his plans said, felt that the California newspapers would be best served with a measure of independence and an emphasis on the local communities, and he had made strides toward transforming the business side of the company with other new hires.
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We need to retake Tribune Corporation. It seems as if Tribune swallowed Times-Mirror, then Times-Mirror took Tribune.
The circulation figures for the LA Times are in dark blue below. See if you can spot a trend. Circulation should be well below 400,000 by now.
Maybe we will see the damming Rashid Khilidi tape where Obama gave his true feelings about the Israelis and Muslim Brotherhood which Khalidi was affiliated with.
Weren’t the Koch Brothers going to buy this rag and make something of it? What happened to that plan?
As these stalwart defenders of a “free press” have secreted it all this time, it must be damning indeed.
That & Hillarys server will never surface.
Recently, for a brief period, there actually was a conservative alternative to the LA Slimes. I was interested in subscribing to the paper. I think it was called the L.A. Register. But it didn’t last for very long.
It might surprise many to learn that best newspaper in the country IMHO is also headquartered in L.A. It has by far the best editorial page and the best cartoonist in the nation. It’s called Investor’s Business Daily.
IOW, he wasn’t liberal enough.
HaHaHaHaHaHa.....Even the LA Slime can’t get a good leftist for the job! My heart bleeds for this pack of RATS feeding on each other.
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