[george76]

Sinking readership and revenue, because of biased and mediocre reporting, is finally taking its toll .

[Mount Athos]

I think pony rides are about right for LA Times Journalists

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping!!!!

[digger48]

Good thing this wasn't the San Francisco Chronical

They've got a whole different idea of what a "pony ride" is up there.

[cmsgop]

This aside,it seems like corporate America seems to be doing more and more of this kiddie BS to keep it's employees happy. Face painting for a bunch of 40 Somethings. We have our own business so I am not in that world, is it me?

[sionnsar]

A Los Angeles Times editor, hoping to give his journalists a break from reporting the often grim news in America's second-largest city, offered an unusual morale booster Monday: pony rides.

Says everything you need to know about LA Times reporting.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I hope they take their pony rides wth these guys...

[calex59]

Like many major U.S. newspapers, the Times, forced to compete with news Web sites on the Internet that report the truth, has seen circulation decline.

There, fixed it!

[Jumpmaster]

I know there is a pony in here someplace...(looking through the LAT)

[elkfersupper]

I have a pony they can ride.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

Oh yeah, a real morale booster! Pony rides in the middle of a heat wave? No wonder they're sinking.

[citizencon]

Poor journalists, at least they're just reporting the 'grim', not experiencing it...

[Darnright]

Pony ping!

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh... I got a pony they can ride :~)

Ping!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

[TommyDale]

I hear the Raleigh News & Observer is offering their staff a Pleasure Ryde.

[carlo3b]

Like many major U.S. newspapers, the Times, forced to compete with news Web sites on the Internet,... about 30 others rode three ponies and a horse during the noon lunch hour before the animals were put away to protect them from the heat.

Hey FR doesn't offer pony rides, especially in 100% noonday heat.. The phony ba$tards think that killing a couple of ponies to heatstroke will enhance perverted employee moral.. On second thought it just might.. Never mind.. :)

[Milhous]

Like many major U.S. newspapers, the Times, forced to compete with news Web sites on the Internet, has seen circulation decline.

To say the least.

Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies

Newspaper sale$ decline should be blamed on the Journos

. . .

People who work at journalism full time ought to be able to do a better job of it than people for whom it is a hobby. But that's not going to happen as long as we "professional" journalists ignore stories we don't like and try to hide our mistakes. We think of ourselves as "gatekeepers." But there is not much future in being a gatekeeper when the walls are down.

Study: Web is the No. 1 media - 06/06/2006

Tribune's 2Q net income down 62 percent - 07/14/2006
Moody's cuts Tribune to "junk" on share buyback - 06/15/2006
Moody's downgrades Tribune long-term debt ratings - 05/23/2006
Tribune consolidated revenue fell 3% in April - 05/17/2006
Tribune 1Q Profit Slides - 04/13/2006
L.A. Times Drags on Tribune Revenue (200 *more* layoffs expected) - 12/02/2005
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal - 06/16/2005
Los Angeles Times Reports March Circulation (Down, down, down) - 05/02/2005
Tribune Company (LA Times parent) Admits Inflated Circulation Numbers At Two Papers - 06/23/2004

[texson66]

Here's one the LA Times Staffers almost getting it right......

[AnAmericanMother]

Aw jeez, what a bunch of idiots! Grownups doing pony rides? Even my kids would pity and despise them.

Probably had 'em snubbed fore and aft to the hot walker so they couldn't run off . . . poor ponies!

[4yearlurker]

Those ponies sure are heavy. It takes 2 reporters to carry one. (Insert Monty Python Pic Here)