Posted on 12/09/2008 12:01:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Financial Times reports, in a story with no named sources, that the owners of the Los Angeles Times are talking to the owners of the Orange County Register about merging operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocbiz.freedomblogging.com ...
US media in deep financial crisis (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch)
What a Tribune Company bankruptcy could mean for California
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The announcement that the Tribune Company, owner of the LA Times, has filed for bankruptcy could have far reaching implications for the California newspaper industry -- and more importantly, on how news is reported on and delivered in the state and nationally.
Even before the announcement there was mounting speculation about what will happen to the numerous struggling newspapers in the state. A recent Financial Times report raised the prospect of some kind of merger or collaboration between the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, which is struggling, and the San Diego Union Tribune, which is also struggling and is up for sale.
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GAAAH!!! NO! That’ll completely ruin the Register.
Imagine a Socialist-Libertarian rag with the emphasis on the socialist...
Sure, I find a lot to disagree with in some of the Register’s editorial positions (an aversion to “foreign entanglements” chief among them, but does anyone remember when the Denver Post started printing the Rocky Mountain News?
Bad for both. The political philosophies of those two papers are totally irreconcilable, IMO.
Whatever value the OC Register had left, whatever positive Libertarian views it espouse will be history if this ever happens.
This will just hasten it’s demise.
Oh ICK!!!!
NOOOOoooo!!! Not the Register. (I don’t care about the Times)
I agree ick but man o man has the register gotten thin as of late
'Orange County Register' Laying Off 110 By Friday (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch)
A paper I give money to..Long Beach Press Telegram .....is one of the Media News Holdings....pretty much local unsavory news....and reprints from the AP.
hey is it windy down there today?
See #9....and #2...
Santa ANA for a few days followed by much cold coming...there was a thread the other day....not sure if I find it.
How many newspapers serve LA? I mean including all it’s environs .....
Some papers are just a rehash printing of AP wire stories plus maybe some local stuff that’s old news by the time it’s printed ....
That’s what I get with the Long Beach Press Telegram....which is owned by MediaNews Group...which might pick up the loose SoCal properties...see #2.
Treating LA as Southern California...it all flows together.
Yes sir, it is windy here.
So really in essence there’s only the one big one, the LA Times, then the Register - and they serve the whole LA area?
I wonder what the Times’ circulation is now, what it was before .... and how viable a company they are ... are they in trouble too?
The Times is owned by Tribune Communications (I think that’s what they’re called),
Tribune filed for bankruptcy yesterday
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