The once great LA Times (Los Angeles: layoffs, to buy, horse)

[V8 Vega]

The once great LA Times had been cutting staff for years and now their firing 82 experienced reporters and writers some are sort of famous.
Many who have been there a long time get a years pay.
No investigating reporting.
I’d kill myself before i ever gave that rag one penny and a lot of people feel the same way.
This so called paper is really a giant advertisement for liberals thats why I hate it but this is actually not good news.

[Astral_Weeks]

Wow, it took you an entire five sentences until you blamed the liberals. I am impressed.


If you are so smart, why don't you go out and start a newspaper business and see how "easy" it is to run one in the online age. A bit like trying to start a horse and buggy business in 1910.

[NewbieHere]

I heard this from my daughter this weekend. I have never buy the local papers, maybe they should write something that we can read. We already have CNN for news for that.

[Cream1]

The LA Times has turned into an El Nino fear-mongering fest.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

The once great LA Times had been cutting staff for years and now their firing 82 experienced reporters and writers some are sort of famous.
Many who have been there a long time get a years pay.
No investigating reporting.
I’d kill myself before i ever gave that rag one penny and a lot of people feel the same way.
This so called paper is really a giant advertisement for liberals thats why I hate it but this is actually not good news.

It really was a better paper under the Chandlers.

I don't know why Tribune don't want to sell it and are even talking about making more acquisitions. Eli Broad is willing to buy it off them any time they're willing to sell, but they don't want to let it go.

L.A. will probably be the first big US city to be without a major daily paper.

[Nodpete]

When the Chicago Tribune bought the LA Times, it was only a matter of time until its demise. The Tribune has gone so far downhill in the last 10-15 years it is only a ghost of the great newspaper it once was. It seems to be ruining everything it touches.

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by Astral_Weeks

Wow, it took you an entire five sentences until you blamed the liberals. I am impressed.

It's not so much political spectrum, but that LA Times has been in bed with the LOs Angeles politics establishment for a couple decades.

Scandal after scandal has been broken by online bloggers, by the daily news, or basically anyone but the LA times

The last major la city scandal the times broke was the Rampart Scandal back in the late 90's. And even that was tainted a few years later when the writers...McGreevy and I forget the other guy....met with then INternal Affairs chief Berkow and agree not to slam LAPD in exchange for better access to info.

Whatever it is, LA times is worthless as a media outlet at this point and it's no surprise that even as the only large media outlet in Los Angeles, they continue a slide into oblivion.

[ryanms3030]

It's not the LA Times, it's newspapers. How many people do you see reading newspapers? There are a million free sources of news that give you instant news online. The concept of newspaper is antiquated and there is no money in it so they can't afford to pay writers.

[disgruntled la native]

LA Times is okay for local coverage. The other stuff - awful. It's not even that liberal anymore. I'd say center left at most.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by majoun

It really was a better paper under the Chandlers.

I don't know why Tribune don't want to sell it and are even talking about making more acquisitions. Eli Broad is willing to buy it off them any time they're willing to sell, but they don't want to let it go.

L.A. will probably be the first big US city to be without a major daily paper.

Actually, no, I think Philadelphia will have that unfortunate honor. The Inquirer, after another set of staff layoffs, is barely on life support.