Comments on: Bloodbath Looms at L.A. Times

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:20:41 +0000

Wouldn’t it be interesting to see if a Fair & Balanced newspaper might be profitable? Worked for FoxNews.

FYI, I’m not a lefty or anything, but come on: Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. They’re the Keith Olbermann of the right.

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:10:56 +0000

The tree of liberty must be refreashed from time to time with the blood of asshole journalists…

By: Wesson

Wesson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:04:46 +0000

One awful thing about the demise of newspapers is how they are all converging on looking like news.google.com. The same articles in the same order.

Investigative journalism is important to the country.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:54:34 +0000

This is creative destruction. Maybe soon we will have a paper that, for instance, considers it silly and insulting to use everything from movie reviews to front page news as a pretext to excoriate Western civilization and America, and just us the facts.

AS for falling revenues, Internet, shminternet–it’s the bias. All those pony-tailed greybeards are relics of the past. As Manlydad says, it’s time to try something new, ala Fox News. The present team would not know what to do, even if they agreed to do it, though.

Maybe it’s time to replay yet again Patrick’s post asking for comments about why we left the LAT. Maybe at least Zell is noticing.

By: C. Norris

C. Norris — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:13:51 +0000

@c.norris–isn’t that the late, great Cathy Seipp on Shelby?

Yes. She could make it hurt so good.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:46 +0000

@c.norris–isn’t that the late, great Cathy Seipp on Shelby?

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:58:07 +0000

It’s not the editorializing in news stories that bothers me, it’s the lack of coverage for local stories that other national papers get.

The NYT magazine had a big story on the comeback attempt of Olympic swimmer, 41 year old Daria Torres. SHE LIVES HERE. The LAT should have owned that story, had a blog about her, video updates, the whole thing. WTF?

Also, the entertainment coverage is dreadful. The paper recently ran an editorial about the Universal fire–things looked good! They might as well be living in Duluth.

By: BF

BF — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:35:58 +0000

Their reporting devolved into a patronizing dishonest mess. The Times will say it’s about the internet, but corruption ruined them. Just look at the Pellicano reporting. A hideous corrupt display.

By: C. Norris

C. Norris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:49:18 +0000

The Los Angeles Times chose to fall on its pen way back when Shelby Coffey III was made Editor-in-Chief. As an article from Salon.com remarks about Coffey’s resignation from the Times in the late ’90’s:

“SC3, in contrast, is the quintessential guilty white male: insular, kindhearted, cluelessly patronizing, endlessly infuriating. And so, during his eight-year tenure, was the Los Angeles Times.

That just about sums up all of the Times management since the 1970’s. It’s not the Internet that is causing the Times extinction, but their own inbreeding and sterility.

By: laddy

laddy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:46:32 +0000

If there are that many good people being sacked, why is the rag so utterly biased and unfact-checked?