Comments on: Tell Us What You Really Think, Times Editors

By: The Blue State Conservatives

The Blue State Conservatives — Thu, 05 May 2005 01:34:44 +0000

LA Times takes a big drop
The Liberal Always Times seems to be falling out of favor with readers. The circulation took a huge drop over the past year dropping 6.5 percent of its readers despite the fact that the economy and population growth are strong…

By: Rod Stanton

Rod Stanton — Sun, 01 May 2005 01:39:26 +0000

If you see any “news” in the LAT about Arnold you know before even reading it that it wil be: a. Lies and half truths. and b. A smear.

By: Ladainian

Ladainian — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:17:51 +0000

With all the reporting on how messed up King/Drew is, why doesn’t LA Times also report on how many emergency rooms and clinics have been closed in the region, and why? Perhaps the Governor is taking on the pro-illegals crowd because it is bogus to have hospitals and schools gorged with people who ran into the country through the desert, instead of using an official border crossing.

By: Ladainian

Ladainian — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:57:34 +0000

There’s more Wilson envy in today’s story Polls Push Governor to the Border. You’ve got to love how LA Times launches into this outrage magnification every day. To be fair, this unfair analysis of the news is labeled as News Analysis instead of being labeled as actual news.

Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, said the governor may well be speaking from the heart: Many legal immigrants are resentful of undocumented immigrants.

But Cain added a caveat: Many of Schwarzenegger’s top advisors worked for former Gov. Pete Wilson, who rode the issue of illegal immigration in the mid-1990s by campaigning for Proposition 187, which denied state services to illegal immigrants but which was later overturned by courts.

“They have played this card before,” Cain said. Focusing on immigration, Cain added, “probably gets people away from obsessing on his defeats. It’s possible this is a conscious strategy, but I also believe this is true to his heart.”

By: Jo macDougal

Jo macDougal — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:03:02 +0000

But they have always been fond of Arnold! They never made up negative stories about him before. Oh wait that was Davis.

By: The Angry Clam

The Angry Clam — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:51:38 +0000

“state national president”

What?

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:13:17 +0000

The Democrats say something, the LA Times repeat it ad-nauseum. There’s not a real surprise here, other than the fact that it took them so long to start repeating Democrat phrases.

By: Ladainian

Ladainian — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:11:24 +0000

I notice the Apr 29 online Gov. Praises ‘Minuteman’ Campaign article has this quote, one of my favorites.

The leader of a Mexican American group called the governor’s comments “shameful” and “nothing short of base racism.”

“I think we’re seeing the real Arnold Schwarzenegger. The mask has now fallen,” said Nativo V. Lopez, state national president of the Mexican American Political Assn. “Those of immigrant stock should have no illusions about what his real sentiments and feelings are toward them.”

It seems like the LA Times can’t get their mind off Pete Wilson - they keep repeating how he was behind Prop-187, which was very offensive to the pro-illegals crowd. And they note over and over again how some of Wilson’s aids now work for Arnold.