With the commonality of very small excavators from China, ditch digger are just no longer needed.
Posted on 03/28/2025 5:14:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Los Angeles Times has delivered another round of layoffs with the outlet’s business side slashed just weeks after 40 newsroom employees accepted buyouts.
The Wrap reports the full count isn’t known, citing Oliver Darcy that dozens of employees across the company’s operations and communications sections were let go this week, including Vice President of Communications Hillary Manning.
Representatives for the Los Angeles Times didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap.
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Will these poor employees cut by “the man” end up on CNN crying about their kids and mortgages?
Of course not, only gubment employees are guaranteed jobs for life😎
Quick!!! Get a judge! get those jobs back!
Lawn Companies need leaf blowers and mulch layer downers!!
Where are all the Kamala losers? They need to cry, whine and throw tantrums to get these people their jobs back. Where are the signs, face masks and pizza place table cloth hats?
A business needs a purpose in order to exist. What purpose does a printed newspaper provide?
Newspapers long ago forgot what their real business was, it was advertising. The “news” was just content to bring in eyeballs for the ads.
Newspapers like the LA Times are in a death spiral. They should establish a 100% free site on line and sell ads and shut down the printed version for good.
Fire all their “journalist” and rehire them as contractors to be paid by the story. Keep the editors so the stories are readable.
Allow anyone to submit “stories”.
But here is the money maker, open up the comments and allow any and all to comment on the story.
Sort of like what FreeRepublic does.
They are now owned by a conservative who is trying to bring them around to being a fair and balanced provider of news in California. So we should be rooting for their success.
Check the Want Ads for Housekeeping and Service jobs.
The owner will need to fire every single editor and reporter to even begin the process of liberating the newspaper from leftist propagandists.
Anything else is meaningless happy talk.
Cut off kickbacks from USAID and this is what happens to our “independent” news.
“An estimated 2,681 news industry jobs were lost through the end of November”
bad news for those employed making buggy whips ...
Yes people still wonder when did LAT ever have newsroom employees.
your advice across the board is excellent, but this particular comment is at the heart of the matter:
“Newspapers long ago forgot what their real business was, it was advertising. The “news” was just content to bring in eyeballs for the ads.”
exactly ... and not only are newspapers an obsolete way to publish “news” anymore, but at the very same time that newspapers were heading into obsolescence, they simultaneously decided their primary product was no longer publishing “news” to attract revenue, but instead was publishing hard leftist political propaganda, while excluding commentary of interest to conservatives ...
newspapers could not have picked a worse time for this transformation: not only were they losing their “news” appeal to more nimble Internet competitors, but they automatically lost over half of their market appeal simply due to their politics, and then lost even more to the few remaining who simply wanted straight “news” in their newspapers, publishing only “news” that was highly censored and biased if it actually appeared at all any more amongst the plethora of screeching columnists, “opinion” writers, and editorials ...
i’ve been studying the slow motion train wreck of the newspaper industry ever since the Internet took off, wondering when the final crash would be ... it looks like the locomotive has finally picked up steam as the train heads towards the cliff ...
Anyone with a functioning brain knows that printed newspapers were and are a dying industry, but that would exclude "journalists". Couple that with their unapologetic activism for "progressive" causes, and it's no wonder they're having layoffs. I wish the owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a brilliant billionaire, Godspeed, but as long as the employees persist in their pursuit of all things "progressive", he has no recourse than to show them the door. The world needs ditch diggers too.
I am glad it worked out for you
With the commonality of very small excavators from China, ditch digger are just no longer needed.
“We will drive this dying ship to the very depths of the darkest ocean so long as we can express our political views!”
If traditional print newspapers want to survive they should start a cable YV channel and get paid by Comcast or whichever carrier provides the cable. That way I could skip over that channel as well as the others that we don't watch.
No one reads English in the LA area.
EC
Actually, cable and Comcast are obsolete. There is a much easier and apparently much better way.
Buy a very good microphone and with your laptop, create your own channel on YouTube. You can actually get paid for doing it if you are able to stand out among all the clutter of others.
Here’s a very good and spectacular example. There are tons of others who aggregate news and lack the credentials and message of Victor Davis Hanson. He calls his channel “The Daily Signal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZPrgcSRaw&ab_channel=TheDailySignal
I have found my self there every day now
lastly, although I generally avoid them, there are seemingly a lot of black young men operating their own conservative news channels. It’s strange to see the message being delivered by a young black man
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