Comments on: L.A. Times Parent Company to File for Bankruptcy?

By: arch

arch — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:10:20 +0000

Sidley Austin? Isn’t that the firm where Michelle Obama worked and Barack interned?

By: ML

ML — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:07:19 +0000

So shilling for Obama doesn’t really pay much, it was just a waste of ink and paper.

Maybe it is time to cancel my subscription, but I like the sports section even though it really sucks lately.

And the paper is almost just advertisements as of late.

By: DCSCA

DCSCA — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:02:24 +0000

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT. HARD TIMES HITS TIMES. I can think of several fat cat managers at the LAT who should get fired immediately.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:06:34 +0000

Here’s an interesting question: What major US city do you think will be the first to have no local daily newspaper at all?

LA and Chicago certainly have to have the edge, but I’m not sure they’re a lock.

By: Da'Shiznit

Da'Shiznit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:29:37 +0000

Any luck a conservative buys one of these papers (Union and Debt Free) and slowly crushes the nut sacks of all these degenerate liberal writers and editors who fabricate news?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:18:33 +0000

Wow, the sad little man in the grocery store is going to be out of his miserable job. He must have gotten laid off from some real job to get the coveted “please, please subscribe to this paper or I will starve” LAT job.

By: happyfeet

happyfeet — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:47:35 +0000

What’s odd is that the same propagandy newspapers what lurvs the greasy unions unions unions and what have been out front making the case that no one would buy a car from a bankrupt automaker don’t seem to see a problem with people committing ad dollars to a bankrupt dirty socialist propaganda newspaper nobody reads like the Los Angeles Times. It must be cause Detroit doesn’t have Joel Stein I bet.

By: Da'Shiznit

Da'Shiznit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:28:53 +0000

I am so happy for them

NYT and Washington Post please.

Maybe if they stopped slanting everything I might actually buy the paper occasionally.

By: redc1c4

redc1c4 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:06:32 +0000

well, if they consolidate the reporting functions to smaller, less expensive office space in business parks, or from home offices, then you could sell the big buildings for development, and make enough to pay some of the debt off. the Times building would make a great loft and shops complex.

outsource the printing function to the same people who already do the WSJ, NYT, etc…. you might get lucky and get them to buy your printing locations.

hell, get rid of most of the writing staff and just pay whomever submits worthwhile copy over the internet: post the subjects you want coverage on and wait for the replies. you just need a few copy editors, and someone to sell the ads.

No LA Times? No great loss…..

By: greg

greg — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:36:28 +0000

Yay!