Hating the Times
L.A. Observed is reporting (and I heard this independently today on my own) that about 70 L.A. Times newsroom jobs are being chopped, which will reduce the editorial staff "from 920 to around 850." Okay, that's rough and I'm sorry for those about to be put out to pasture, but if the the paper version of the Los Angeles Times were to disappear tomorrow, a part of me would truly rejoice. I've never loathed a newspaper in my life like I hate the Los Angeles Times with those wads and wads of ad supplements falling out all over the place when I read it in a cafe. I love reading a lot of the L.A. Times reporters and columnists, but I hate the paper Times with a passion. Save the forests and make it all cyber. Better yet, bring back the L.A. Herald Examiner.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 22, 2007 at 10:40 PM
comment #1
Larry
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I don't quite get all this hate, and I see it everywhere.
The LA Times has flaws, sure, but overall it's a pretty decent paper--for both hard news and entertainment--and besides, it's the only paper LA's got. If it disappeared, nothing would replace it.
Posted by Larry
at April 22, 2007 11:46 PM
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gruver1
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Wells to Larry: That's precisely my point, or what I'm envisioning when I say put a match to the paper version of the L.A. Times. Something WOULD replace it, and we'd probably all be the better for it.
Posted by gruver1
at April 22, 2007 11:58 PM
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christian
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sadly, the la times has adopted a FOX news style which has turned their editorial boards into apologias for guv'nr enron and a platform for the hack bottom feeders of the right: goldberg, d'souza, boot, limbaugh. that's it's considered a liberal paper by the right wing talk radio blo-holes is funny.
the entertainment section is the worst with breathless stories on timberlake's line of jeans and the importance of product placement...
i do feel for the people getting fired and it's a bad sign...
Posted by christian
at April 23, 2007 8:05 AM
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nemo
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S.J. Perelman probably had other complaints against the LA Times 70 years ago. But who can forget Perelman's crack that once he asked a train porter to bring him a newspaper, but the poor man, being hard of hearing, brought him the Los Angeles Times.
Posted by nemo
at April 23, 2007 2:41 PM
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nola
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Not a fan of the L.A. Times at all. It's sad the 2nd largest city in the country doesn't have more daily papers. The entertainment section is a joke.
Posted by nola
at April 23, 2007 4:54 PM
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Terry McCarty
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Maybe it was a good thing that the HERALD EXAMINER disappeared, since it would have turned (figuratively and literarlly)into a NEW YORK POST-like tabloid if it had stayed in publication.
Posted by Terry McCarty
at April 23, 2007 6:03 PM