Posted on 07/21/2005 9:17:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Why do papers even bother having their own reporters overseas? They all write exactly the same cr*p, taken from AP and Reuters anyway.
As it moves further to the left the LA times continues to draw from a shrinking well. If it moves to the right it will only lose readership at a faster rate.
How about this:
1) Fire everybody making more that $9.00 per hour.
2) Replace them all with illegal immigrants at minimum wage.
3) Convert the LA Times to a Spanish language paper.
Where do I send my bill?
Time for the reporters and union workers to STRIKE against big corporate newspaper.
OH TOMKOW if you own stock in Chicago Tribune LA Times is killing you
The Spanish in LA can't read.
No problem. We'll just use lots of pictures.
Anyway, the way things are going, in the next few years there aren't going to be enough English readers to support the paper either.
Former NYT Managing Editor Eugene Roberts, who hired Carroll at the Philadelphia Inquirer, says what the Tribune Company is proposing amounts to a "national tragedy." He adds that Carroll did not want to "preside over a major diminishment or the destruction of the L.A. Times as we now know it." William Marimow, the managing editor of National Public Radio who succeeded Carroll at the Baltimore Sun, said the Tribune's budget plans "would require dismantling much of what he'd done."
Actually, Los Angeles is a very illiterate city....I didnt mean to make it sound that bad. I think 50% are functioning illiterate.
Only 11% of LAUSD students can perform university level work upon graudation of high school.
L.A.TIMES=no loss.
Even in one of the most liberal market, the LAT is still a shrinking fish wrapper.
Let them go down the tubes. Who will miss them?
The paper also took huge hits in circulation over the past two reporting periods. For the six months ending September 2004, daily circ slid 5.5% and Sunday dropped 6.3%. For the latest period, ending March 2005, daily copies decreased 6.4% and Sunday fell 7.9%. Total advertising revenue for the paper rose less than 1% in the second quarter of 2005.
Another hit came when General Motors announced in April that it was pulling advertising from the Times in response to a series of unfavorable articles, including one written by Pulitzer-prize winning car columnist Dan Neil on April 6. The paper would not disclose the amount of money lost, but some analysts estimated that GM, one of the paper's largest advertisers, spent close to $20 million in 2004.
What's that you say? Circulation is down? Pretty severely over the last couple of years? And they want to make cuts now?
I don't understand this. I'm so confused.
But it's also a shrinking market. The LA Times aims at the affluent white liberal, but they're a declining demographic, thanks to the invasion from the south.
How about this:
1) Fire everybody making more that $9.00 per hour.
2) Replace them all with illegal immigrants at minimum wage.
3) Convert the LA Times to a Spanish language paper.
Where do I send my bill?
heck i think you should stage a corporate take over
this is too hilarious
couldn't happen to a worse group
The same thing with the rest of the liberal rag papers, and the rest of the MSM ... let them go down the tubes, who cares and who will miss them.
if they replaced all the liberal writers with ones just out of college, they could do no worse!
I hope the Sun-Sentinel is the next rag to feel the Tribune Company's budget axe....they can start by firng Buddy Nevins, Mike Mayo and the whole homophile editorial board.
does this count on Sunday LA Times only good thing about that edition is sale adverstiging and coupons cut out of LOL!
I AM SERIOUS LOL!
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