Posted on 07/20/2005 8:57:05 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Rumors are rampant at the L.A. Times that a big announcement involving the future of the paper is coming today. I didn't have time to report out what if anything is behind the whispers, and I may be on the road when it comes down. But if it's true that John Carroll is readying to vacate the editor's chair, media reporters might want to look into what was discussed in Chicago a few weeks ago between Managing Editor Dean Baquet and Tribune Company brass. Inquiring reporters might also probe just how close Baquet came earlier this month to exiting the L.A. scene. At the time, threats of drastic Tribune-ordered budget cuts were in the air.
Yahoo! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Considering the demographics of Southen California, maybe they need to invent a newspaper with a SAP button.
Too bad it's for "budget" reasons, not for treason.
If true, sounds like the suits don't have the same financial death wish the lefties there do.
It doesn't hardly even have a now.
The TIMES has a few major problems. 1) They publish leftist tripe, so they alienated much of their audience, and 2) There are fewer and fewer readers WHO CAN ACTUALLY READ ENGLISH in Los Angeles
Newspapers have got to be having major problems.
I'm a news junkie, I traditionally made it a practice to read several newspapers, comparing the coverage in one to the coverage in another, looking for little details in the story that one or the other picked up or missed...
I used to haunt the out-of-town and foreign news outlets as a hobby, pick up the paper from Upper Volta and take it to coffee...
I know, thats a sad confession to make. I'm seeking help.
But actually, help has already arrived. I can't remember when I last bought a newspaper. Our local newspaper has people standing outside the grocery store trying to convince people to sign up, and no one will. I used to make it a habit to read the LA Times where ever I lived, because compared to many its coverage was pretty good, as long as you factored in obvious bias, which I countered by reading the whole article and remembering what they told me 3 months ago that they now have forgotten, journalistic amnesia being what it is.
But I don't even bother with them any more. I can read half a dozen papers from half a dozen countries every morning with my coffee and I don't have to pay a dime. So how do they stay in business? I don't bother with TV news anymore, their biases have gotten too tiresome to ignore, and even Fox annoys me to no end with their constant crim-of-the-century trial coverage... I click on and if nothings happening, I'm gone. Click by CSPan, click on the Canadian news channel for a moment, and then its back to the web.
The traditional news outlets have to be suffering.
Years ago the L.A. Times was a very good place to get your information. It long ago has become a schill for the far left and not worth using in the bottom of the bid cage.
Anti American, Anit Israel, Anti Business, Anti White folk.
Other then that it is still a great place for information.
Yes, the LA Times is converting to Los Tiempos.
Rush said the other day that he's been waiting all his life for the MSM to implode. I have too.
It's a beautiful day, ain't it?
The part that I look forward to are the fights between the LAT and the unions whose members they are laying off over contracting out and hiring non-union, i.e., less expensive & more efficient, folks to do the same work.
You mean the one industry that actively goes out of their way to insult, demean, ridicule, taunt, and scapegoat their customers is on hard times?! I wonder what went wrong??!
NY Times should be next!! Their quality and bias problems are legendary now, and their circulation is declining. Advertisers and investors ought to start demanding real accountability after all the scandals.... of course, in the case of the NY Times the rot clearly starts at the top, with publisher (spoiled rich tart) Pinch Sulzberger. They need to clean house at all levels, but will they?
Carroll has been replaced by an illegal alien! LMAO
People don't want to read their BS anymore.
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