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.
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.
Oh ICK!!!!
NOOOOoooo!!! Not the Register. (I don’t care about the Times)
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 ....
Bring back the Herald-Examiner! :-)