Readers Angry at The Times for Schwarzenegger Stories

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 5, 2003 | Steve Hymon, Cara Mia DiMassa and Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writers

[Nachum]

Kathy McIver is a Democrat from La Habra and a longtime subscriber to The Times. Today's paper, she says, will be the last that will be delivered to her door.

Like many readers, McIver is angry. She is angry about The Times' coverage of the California recall campaign, and especially angry about the stories that the newspaper has run in recent days detailing allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger touched women inappropriately.

[litany_of_lies]

"Over a thousand readers have recently terminated their subscriptions."

They're merely piling on to an onging trend.

LAT's circulation at 9/30/1999 (average for previous 6 months) was 1,078,160, per http://www.naa.org/info/facts00/14.html

LAT's circulation at 9/30/2000 (average for previous 6 months) was 1,033,399, per http://www.naa.org/info/facts01/18_top20circ/index.html

LAT's circulation at 9/30/2001 (average for previous 6 months, I believe, but not sure) was 972,659, per http://www.freep.com/jobspage/links/top100.htm

Figures weren't findable for September of 2002 for anyone at the web sites listed. My theory is that the newspaper business doesn't want to tell us how much they're slipping.

So we know that LAT lost over 9% of its readers during a period when overall population was growing. I daresay it has lost just as many additional subscribers during the past two years.

BUT THE LEFTISTS WHO RUN THE NEWSROOM WON'T CARE UNTIL THEY'RE SHOWN THE DOOR. Where are the adults at the Tribune Company in all of this? (BTW, sent an e-mail to Tribune Company yesterday at tribune.com)

[strela]

However, the resemblance is eerily striking.

Especially around the mouth. It caused a fit of the giggles unlike any I've had since I was a shirt-tail kid.

[PJ-Comix]

Years ago the L.A. Times got caught with its pants down when one of its reporters was discovered to have been calling a prosecutor to press charges against a California legislator. I forgot the name of the legislator but I think his first name was Alan. Does anybody else recall this incident? It proved to be a terrible embarrassment for the L.A. Times since they had a long vendetta against this legislator.

[Howlin]

Good email, John!

[John Jorsett]

Good email, John!

Thanks. I figure if enough people like us make their inboxes look like the 8th circle of hell, it might at least give them pause the next time. I only wish I subscribed to the Times so that I could cancel it.

[Ceoman]

If a bodybuilder in the 1970s had told me my "butt" looked good, I would have been ecstatic!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

My newspaper had an LA Times article in it describing the candidates - they kind of missed describing Arnold's string of businesses, real estate holdings and his success in areas outside bodybuilding and film.

[Paulus Invictus]

But not my sister. If she doesn't get her LA Times fix every day, she panics. There is nothing I can do to change her mind.

[Allan]

CNN has continued to report the Hitler allegation.

The grinning ninny Margaret Carlson repeated it on the Capital Gang last night
and nobody refuted her, not even Bob Novak.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Sorry.. I sure don't. I don't read the LA Times, and I won't even subscribe online to the Enquirer.. OPPS the LA TIMES!!

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

That's her, the ONE and ONLY Susan Estrich!!

What has amazed us.. is how she has been so against the LA Times in this, and spoken out so publicly and so soon!!

Blew us away!! I thought she was going to say she was casting her vote for Arnold because of it all. Just an amazing turn of event for Susan to blast Democratic politics the way she has over this!

[GOPJ]

Me too.

I refuse to register at their site.

[cartoonistx]

My print-media sources breathlessly tell me the numbers that have cancelled the Times since the recall started top 50,000! Sure hope Davis is worth it to the publisher. He's cost them a bundle and he hasn't even applied the newsprint tax yet! (er...never mind. I was having a Pete Wilson flashback!)

[Timesink]

My print-media sources breathlessly tell me the numbers that have cancelled the Times since the recall started top 50,000!

Boy, I hope that's true. That would be a full 5% of their daily circulation!

[Timesink]

My newspaper had an LA Times article in it describing the candidates - they kind of missed describing Arnold's string of businesses, real estate holdings and his success in areas outside bodybuilding and film.

An unintentional oversight, I'm sure. </sarcasm>

[ladyinred]

Wow! I can't believe they printed this! Great news!! I added my own complaint to the thousands of others!

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[hanta-yo]

I had been a 33 years subscriber to the LA Times, no more. I'll miss the crossword puzzle. I don't have any idea how many other subscribers cancelled, but I had to wait "on hold" for nearly 25 minutes on Friday morning to cancel

[ladyinred]

Am I crazy? I am a female, I have been "groped" before, we used to just slap the guy and go on with our lives! Now it is called, "mistreatment" and is a crime or something? Have we all lost our minds? This isn't the same as luring some woman to your hotel room and unzipping and well, you know the rest! It a pat on the fanny, or grabbing a boob, right? You SLAP the jerk if you don't like it!!!

[Yaelle]

Your letter is better! I guess you didn't have a screaming baby on your lap! LOL. Excellent.

I too am keeping it as one of the two papers we receive for the same reasons as you: to know what Pravda is spinning and Ramirez. Also, my son reads the sports page and I like the Food section.