Posted on 04/01/2013 3:36:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Protesters were set to gather Monday in downtown Los Angeles to urge the owners of the Los Angeles Times not to sell the newspaper to “political propagandists”.
Members of the self-described “progressive” Courage Campaign along with MoveOn.org and Daily Kos launched an online petition demanding the Tribune Company, publishers of the L.A. Times, to reconsider a rumored sale to billionaire businessmen David and Charles Koch.
Protesters were expected to deliver some 100,000 Californian signatures calling on Tribune Company President Peter Liguori “to refuse to sell the paper to political propagandists” to the company’s headquarters near City Hall Park before 2:00 p.m.
An L.A. Times advertisement sponsored by the Courage Campaign alleges the Koch brothers are “climate change deniers, Tea Party funders and election buyers” that will transform the venerable paper into “another Fox News.”
While the Koch brothers have refused to comment on speculation of any possible sale, other big-name potential suitors reportedly include News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and billionaire Eli Broad, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to the Times, the Tribune owns the Chicago Tribune, other newspapers and several radio and TV stations. The company sought bankruptcy protection in 2008 after a leveraged buyout that was engineered by billionaire Sam Zell, and which an examiner said likely included fraud, according to the Associated Press
I was starting to feel happy too....
call a lock smith....flip the tumblers on the front door... R.I.P. for the LA Slimes...
I hadn’t heard of this...the Koch Bros might be making a bid to buy the LA Times. That would be an interesting and unexpected development, and one worth watching.
OMG NO DONT LET ANYONE HEAR ANY OTHER OPINION IN THE NEWS!!!!!
April Fools
Given the fact that newspapers are a dying media, I’m sure that they can be picked up at bargain prices. Whether that’s a good investment (economically or ideologically) remains to be seen.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/26/business/la-fi-tribune-newspapers-20130227
From the above link - It could be true Empire....
They’ve hired investment bankers to advise them on selling... if or not is my guess... and for how much...
Tribune Co. has hired investment bankers to advise the media company on whether to sell the division that includes the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and six other daily newspapers.
We should be so lucky.
No April Fools day, but I would love to see Rush Buy NBC or CBS. They would become #1 in a week. He would see an immediate 25% return on his investment, At a minimum.
Yup, referring to the code pinkers... fools.
They should sell to Al Jazeera instead!
Like the old saying goes: owning a newspaper is a way to make a small fortune (by starting with a large fortune).
Actually, a lot of the later Chandlers were quite conservative -- at least according to the PBS documentary. They forced the sale of the paper to the Tribune Company. The film makers could barely contain their anger or contempt or disgust when it came to those "little" Chandlers.
>>I can’t figure out if this is just a straight case of irony, or if it is a small case of irony mixed with loads of stupidity?<<
April Fools’?
The story’s been circulating for a month. If it’s AF, it’s the part about street protests.
Are you SURE this is not April Fool's?
Today's Pravda is moderate in comparison. Think of the LAT more like a print version of MSNBC.
Good.
now, maybe we can discover what’s on that tape of Obama and the Muslim dinner.
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