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Koch brothers want to make your newspaper their megaphone
L.A. Times ^ | 5/1/13 | David Horsey

Posted on 05/01/2013 9:02:18 AM PDT by Nachum

The people of Los Angeles would be up in arms if some out-of-town billionaires tried to buy the Dodgers and institute a rule that only right-handers could play on the team. Petitions would be signed, protests would be organized and politicians would rise up to condemn the sale. It would be nice if there were a similar outcry at the prospect of the Koch brothers buying the Los Angeles Times. After all, as exciting as it may be for a city to have a major league sports team, a good newspaper is a far more valuable asset.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brothers; koch; kochbrothers; la; lat; liberalmedia; media; megaphone; newspaper; newspapers; times
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Out-of-town billionaires want to buy the Dodgers? Really? When? They might play a whole lot better than they are now. A really good idea.
1 posted on 05/01/2013 9:02:18 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
a good newspaper is a far more valuable asset.

And it's too bad America's 2nd largest metro area doesn't have one.

2 posted on 05/01/2013 9:03:20 AM PDT by relictele
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Right now the LAT is the Obamadork’s butt-kissing toilet, with the intellectual integrity of a senator.

Methinks megaphone might be an improvement.


3 posted on 05/01/2013 9:03:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Nachum

Well, Karl Marx owns the megaphone now.


4 posted on 05/01/2013 9:04:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Nachum

“The people of Los Angeles would be up in arms if some out-of-town billionaires tried to buy the Dodgers and institute a rule that only right-handers could play on the team. Petitions would be signed, protests would be organized and politicians would rise up to condemn the sale.”

And, even with all that, it wouldn’t stop the sale.

Liberals just hate when they can’t control things..

Also sounds like ‘Dave’ is a little worried about losing his job.

If he keeps going the way he is, he just might be right.


5 posted on 05/01/2013 9:05:19 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to being a liberal)
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To: Nachum
The people of Los Angeles would be up in arms if some out-of-town billionaires tried to buy the Dodgers.

Yeah Imagine that.
6 posted on 05/01/2013 9:05:58 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nachum
"I'm David Horsey, and I wrote this message!"


7 posted on 05/01/2013 9:06:31 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Thank God he’s gone from Seattle!


8 posted on 05/01/2013 9:08:06 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Nachum
a good newspaper is a far more valuable asset

Yup. It's a shame that LA doesn't have one unless "Democrat Party shills" qualifies...

9 posted on 05/01/2013 9:08:45 AM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Nachum
Check out this bizarre editorial in HuffPo. The writer uses various fantasies and unsupported anecdotes to say that half the LAT staff is going to quit if the Koch deal goes through. I'll bet half the LAT staff has no idea who the Koch brothers are.
10 posted on 05/01/2013 9:09:09 AM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: Nachum

So, when are they going to get a good newspaper? LMAO


11 posted on 05/01/2013 9:09:16 AM PDT by GamecockD
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Does he mean that after they buy it I might actually would want to read anything there more than my current once every two years? Have they no shame?


12 posted on 05/01/2013 9:10:34 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Nachum
Actually, the Kochs have a big advantage here.

Newspapers are of most interest to people who know how to read, do so in English, and actually care to read.

That rules about 60% of the current LA population.

13 posted on 05/01/2013 9:11:19 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Nachum
a good newspaper is a far more valuable asset.

Define "good".

14 posted on 05/01/2013 9:11:28 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Jim Robinson

Kind of weird that they can’t see that the opposite is the current state of affairs. It’s okay for “them” to have the megaphone but not others with opposing view points. Kind of like the politcally correct one way street we find ourselves driving the wrong way on. Dems=good. Rep=evil. From their point of view. Don’t you just love the “tolerant” lefties?


15 posted on 05/01/2013 9:12:13 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Baynative

Half the LA Times staff only cares that their paychecks show up on time to be cashed.

This half loves the Kochs


16 posted on 05/01/2013 9:13:18 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Nachum

Leftists are such incessant whiners.


17 posted on 05/01/2013 9:14:25 AM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: Nachum
Koch brothers want to make your newspaper their megaphone

I say, "BRING IT ON BOYS."

Against this communistic media we could use a little more fire power in getting information, that should be reported and isn't, out to the public.

18 posted on 05/01/2013 9:15:34 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Nachum
Because America hating socialists aren't using the paper (and almost all of media) as their megaphone?
19 posted on 05/01/2013 9:15:48 AM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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All along, the liberals would have had us believe that it doesn’t really matter who owns a media outlet, because newsroom integrity and the quality of reporting would never be affected by left-wing ownership.

Now they are asking us to believe the exact opposite. They are running scared at the LA Times. Good. The comfortable are becoming afflicted.


20 posted on 05/01/2013 9:15:52 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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