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Newspaper guild: The LA Times must not be sold to the Koch brothers and their “harsh ...
Hot Air ^ | 2:01 pm on May 1, 2013 | Allahpundit

Posted on 05/01/2013 3:20:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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Newspaper guild: The LA Times must not be sold to the Koch brothers and their “harsh right-wing positions”; Update: LA Dems threaten Times investors over Koch sale


1 posted on 05/01/2013 3:20:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They would rather see a paper die than tell the truth


2 posted on 05/01/2013 3:24:00 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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And the soure I am trusting on Benghazi and the Boston Bombing is the UK Paper....The Daily Mail.

If the Koch Brothers buy LA Times I may subscribe.

3 posted on 05/01/2013 3:25:03 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: GeronL

And they are suppose to care about the welfare of the writers.


4 posted on 05/01/2013 3:26:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Funny. I remember the memo circa 2006/8ish from the AP that opinion in hard news articles was henceforth OK. A long time ed at our paper nearly had a stroke reading it.

That memo exists. This leftie is full of BS. Opinion is a modern foundation of ‘hard’ news.


5 posted on 05/01/2013 3:27:22 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

By using negative adjectives the anti-Koch journos admitted their biases.
Didn’t the L.A. Times endorse Obama???


6 posted on 05/01/2013 3:29:05 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Even if the Koch’s bid isn’t taken, they have certainly gotten their money’s worth out of listening to these miserable excuses blubbering away in panic.

I expect they know, deep down in their shriveled, black hearts, that a major media organ suddenly reporting on things like Benghazi, F&F and the other host of suppressed stories, and actually covering State and Local news from a conservative/libertarian standpoint would be literally earthshaking. They are terrified that their monopoly on public opinion will be shattered.

As Rush says, they’ll tell you what frightens them.


7 posted on 05/01/2013 3:32:11 PM PDT by BrewingFrog (I brew, therefore I am!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Gotta love the lib upset in this! Maybe the Koch Bros should say “We’re still gonna buy it, but we are going to relinquish editorial control to the CPUSA and ACORN”.


8 posted on 05/01/2013 3:33:44 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

At least the Kochs could tie up the LA Slimes in legal fees and inflict a mortal wound.


9 posted on 05/01/2013 3:35:10 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; hellinahandcart; MindBender26; governsleastgovernsbest; BufordP; Carry_Okie; ..
< giggle>

Gasp! *wheeze*

ROFLMAOPIMPWTIME!!!!!

ahem....

Inserting bias? Why, there's no room for any more bias!

10 posted on 05/01/2013 3:35:23 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Two points:

1. I don't recall this anguish when CNN and TimeWarner merged. Nobody complained about Ted Turner getting too much control over the news.

2. How is this any different from when liberals blocked Rush Limbaugh from buying into an NFL team? It wasn't about the team, it was about stopping a prominent Conservative from achieving success at all costs.

-PJ

11 posted on 05/01/2013 3:42:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Poor writers might want to read up on Hostess


12 posted on 05/01/2013 3:44:27 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

HEY, I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING...

Wasn’t there some kind of tape about Obama that the LA Times has been sitting on for 4 or 5 years now?

Oh yes, the video of Obama praising Rashid Khalidi.

If the Koch brothers buy the LA Times do they also get the tape?


13 posted on 05/01/2013 3:44:38 PM PDT by servo1969
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Shhhh...the CommieMedia doesn’t need to know that. ;)


14 posted on 05/01/2013 3:47:44 PM PDT by madison10
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If the Koch brothers buy the LA Times do they also get the tape?

It'll be long gone before the Kochs move in.

15 posted on 05/01/2013 3:48:59 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We’re also not certain that Tribune will listen to anything but money when the final decision is made

They're supposed to consider something else?

Like what? The color of the money?

Zell won't give a damn.

16 posted on 05/01/2013 3:52:21 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The American Newspaper Guild (ANG) is a union for reporters and editors. It's like all unions: its goal is to protect the members, especially the bosses, and the public be damned.

Back in the 1960s when "hot" lead type was used in printing, the International Typographical Union was absolutely opposed to the use of computers in typesetting. At the time there were seven daily newspapers in NYC and many 2-3 newspaper towns around the country. I recall when the New York ITU went on strike and killed off four otherwise healthy papers at great detriment to the public as well as ITU members.

FOUR NEWSPAPERS KILLED BY UNION>

17 posted on 05/01/2013 3:54:14 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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Poor writers might want to read up on Hostess

LOVE IT !!!!

18 posted on 05/01/2013 4:43:31 PM PDT by fedupjohn (America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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To: Paine in the Neck

The Kochs need to let it be known that if the tape is destroyed the person responsible will be fired and prosecuted.


19 posted on 05/01/2013 4:44:20 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Everyone KNOWS the media are biased. Libs approve since it helps them sell their satanism, moderates don’t care, and conservatives mostly don’t watch or listen. The wadded panties over the Kochs taking over a newspaper is one of the funniest stories of the year - hope they do buy it, all the libs carry through with their threat to quit, and we’ll have a foot in enemy territory.


20 posted on 05/01/2013 4:57:03 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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