Comments on: Requiem For the Los Angeles Newspaper Industry

By: deguello

deguello — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:58:55 +0000

The left-wing media is dying,deep fried in the fat of its own nihilistic,multicultural liberal bullsh-t. Let’s celebrate!

By: Bill Perron

Bill Perron — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:11:18 +0000

As a youg kid growing up in L. A. I sold newspapers on Sundays in front of a Catholic church. Both the Times and the Examiner before it became the Herald Examiner. Even as just a kid I did not like the Times, the Examiner had better comics, more interesting columnists, and definately a much better sports page. After the Examiner merged with the Herald Express and became the Herald Examiner it got even better. Problem was that the Times wasn’t union and the Herald Examiner was. The union threatened to strike and the Hearsts called their bluff and said go ahead and stike we will shut the paper down. The stupid union called a strike Hearst shut the paper down, all the union folks were now jobless and L. A. only had one newspaper.The Times had virtually no competition after that and it didn’t have to even try to get better, so if you don’t like the Times blame it on the printers union.

By: deguello

deguello — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:48:37 +0000

The capacity for reality avoidance of liberals is phenomenal.Most Americans abhor the stalinist pc agitprop that the “mainstream media” slops out.Whether printed on the Times, or electronically excreted by cbs nbc ,abc,a moribund cnbc, or cnn,Leftist propaganda is being rejected in favor of the new media. That’s why the above named organs of liberal drivel are openly serving as Obama’s media hacks:they are counting on an Obama presidency to keep them alive by censoring the new media into oblivion.Thhnk”fairness” doctrine,to which I say,Second Amendment.

By: AnnieB

AnnieB — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:08:30 +0000

First rule of anything is you have to deliver what the customer bought.

From a reporter ( newspaper) we want information we value.

If we can’t trust that the information is true, it has no value.

The press has not only lied but confessed that they don’t care that they lie.

Thus – we don’t ‘hire’ the reporters any more.

By: Californio

Californio — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:56:31 +0000

Again, and again and again. Soooooo, an occupation is wrong when (allegedly) the USA does it overseas – but it is A-OK when done by the apparatachiks at the LA Times. First, did you ever notice how to “them” Los Angeles pretty much exists only in a mile square area of down town and selected portions of the Westside? Everyone else falls into the category of “urban cannonfodder.” Preachy, arrogant, out-of-touch, morality pushing, freedom restricting…..no not rightwingers – its our pals at the LA Times – who are really only tools of our leftist pals on the westside. Hey – newsflash – California is already Mexico – we have one political party – the California Democratic party is our PRI – and every bit as honest and effective.

By: Mike Hunt

Mike Hunt — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:52:02 +0000

The common thread in all of the above comments is betrayal, and The LA Times agenda driven dishonesty.
I don’t think Zell or any of the past or present LAT writers seriously understand this. In fact they are in total denial, blaming instead the internet for their woes.
Yet, there are newspapers in this country that are alive and well because they retained their honesty and maintained their bond with their subscribers.

BETRAYAL & LIES . ZELL & Co. are you listening?

By: Iago

Iago — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:59:59 +0000

Oh, don’t act so sad. Some in the media are doing quite well. I understand Rush Limbaugh just signed a $400 million dollar contract. Now, the question you should be asking yourselves is, what is it that makes Mr. Limbaugh so attractive to so many people, and what is it that makes the LAT, NYT, CBS, CNN, etc., so unattractive?

Marxists, having been indoctrinated in and succumbed to a peculiar foreign ideology originated by a smelly old German, do not understand many things and one of them is the law of supply and demand, that most basic of capitalist concepts. When you have thousands of people identifying themselves as journalists but turning out vast quantities of dishonest propaganda criticizing America and aiming to destabilize our elected government, you quickly reach a saturation point. One Daily Worker might be able to squeeze out a profit, dozens of Daily Worker newspapers and several Daily Worker TV channels are competing for what is, after all, a very small demographic.

So, if Americans want the truth, where do they go? CBS and Dan Rather? NYT and Sulzberger, Jr.? Keith Olbermann? Evan Thomas? Ummm, no.

Truth is in demand, and Marxism is one of the few major philosophies that make a virtue, or a sacrament, of dishonesty. The only other one I know of is Islamism. That is why Islamism and the Marxist media have cooperated in trying to stop the War Against the Terrorists.

From a Marxist perspective, George Bush and Rush Limbaugh are liars, but who the hell cares about the Marxist perspective? The old media cares, but they are going out of business.

A, MFs.

By: Sulaco

Sulaco — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:05:53 +0000

Dito EVERYTHING said above about the Seattle Times. The Post Intellegencer, the other “news paper” kept alive only by being on court ordered life support from Times funds is just a weekly left hate rag screaming at itself most days. None of them mean anything anymore and they deserve every moment of it.

By: Augustus

Augustus — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:51:07 +0000

Yes MSM….die many deaths. Die-Die-Die!

By: JohnR(DC)

JohnR(DC) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:43:55 +0000

Well, the Washington Post is in the same boat as the Times per dropping revenue and circulation. So what did the Post’s suits do? They just ran a twelve-part series on the unsolved murder of Chandra Levy (?) and the poor Californian schmuck who was her “friend”/congressman. Whole pages of the stuff. I’ll bet that endless pandering series attracted new readers in droves, right?

But that’s the way the newspaper suits think, if “think” is the right word to describe their brain activity.