It sounds like JR played right into their hands. A shame really. JR used to rile up the forum about how he was going to defy WP's and LAT's demands to stop posting, and all the while he played right into their hands. I guess if he would have simply met the LAT and WP demands they would of had no excuses for bad website numbers and the liberal heads would have felt the heat. A shame really.
Look..................I must first apologize for my language in my last reply to you. It wasn't really aimed at you so much as the Times and Post (they just rile me), but no excuse on my part, and you just caught the brunt of it.
As to your point................no, I don't think Jim played into their hands per se'. I think that he pushed back, but ultimately gave them what they wanted. That still wasn't good enough for those guys. No, they wanted an example, as if FR or any other single Web site was responsible for their dismal "hit rates" (I truly wish, in an obtuse way, that this case was really about some loftier concept or ideal..........but it wasn't; THAT is the sad part). Their problems were problems of technology and content, pure and simple. That, in itself, is a lengthy discussion that I would find it prudent NOT to go into on this forum..........but the points stand.
Yeah, as it is, the LATimes had to sell everything they owned to the folks at the Chicago Tribune, ending 100+years of local(LA) control, and the W.Post is at the bottom of the ratings heap, and can't give advertising space away. I'm sure they wanted that to happen.
Who knows before it's all over FR may outlive them both.