Comments on: L.A. Times Attempting Suicide

By: Westie

Westie — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:20:02 +0000

I can’t see the Wall Street Journal on that graph….Patterico has it!

By: Bradley J. Fikes

Bradley J. Fikes — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:36:33 +0000

Online charging just might work for the LA Times to preserve it in some limited fashion. Lefties enjoy having their biases validated by a putatively objective newspaper, especially those who pretend to be moderates. They may well decide to pay online to keep their bubble intact.

IOW, the LAT may had adopted a marketing strategy to survive as a purveyor of ideological comfort food.

By: ageofknowledge

ageofknowledge — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Maybe it’s a good thing. They are radically left and the left doesn’t buy newspapers (except for the wealthy liberal snobs). Might force them to change out their staff with some more realistic journalists that don’t preach amnesty and sanctuary cities are the way to America’s recovery.

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:54:58 +0000

I just read an article that the OCR just dumped reporter Yvette Cabrera and 9 other unnamed reporters.

WOW That is great news. Yvette “The illegal is never wrong” Cabrera was poisonous.

Too bad. She’s an excellent writer, and has potential to be an excellent reporter. But on the flip side, her biases and prejudices are unmatched. If she can ever temper those she’ll be a star. But it’s probably like asking a leopard to change its spots.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:10:53 +0000

See, I’ll tell you why the newspaper media has been so silent on the massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the TBTF financial institutions. The banks basically OWN the newspapers. The newspapers rely on the big bank loans to get through another day of business and if the banks ever refused to roll those loans over it would result in instant bankrupcy. And since the government and the financial institutions have merged their powers to control every aspect of American life – the newspapers are very hesitant to criticize the government in 2012. So the media has stopped investigating big government and the financial system. That is why you haven’t seen any decent investigative reporting from the big publications in the midst of the financial meltdown. That firewall no longer exists. The Pentagon Papers and Watergate investigations are for the history books. You will never see such investigative reporting again.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:25:58 +0000

I just read an article that the OCR just dumped reporter Yvette Cabrera and 9 other unnamed reporters. Getting rid of Cabrera might be one of the best business decisions that OCR has ever made. As a matter of fact it might even convince me to restore my OCR subscription. Stay tuned.

But this could indicate more financial trouble at the OCR – so now the rumors of a buyout are starting to make more sense.

My advice to the CEO: When you report news in a conservative county don’t do it with a liberal twist.

By: OC Native

OC Native — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:27:03 +0000

Beelzebub – I agree with you. The articles the the first section are generally pretty left leaning. However, I get my weekly fill in the sunday rag of the truth out there. You have the Editorials, Mark Steyn, Greenhut, Landsbaum and others. My favorites are the Cartoons because they hit the mark and lampoon the left so eloquently.

One part I do have to question is some of the guest column writers and a good number of the rebuttal people. But it just goes to show you that liberals like to read the truth in the editorial section of the OC Register, even though they are steaming out of ears as they are reading.

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:23:03 +0000

Don’t recall but, whoever (or wherever) it was, I deemed it credible enough to believe. Most folks I know tend to read the letters- to- the- editor, at the very least.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:17:53 +0000

“I’ve heard that the opinion pages are the most read section of any paper”

Who did you hear that from? An editorialist? It’s not true.

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:25:13 +0000

Beelzebub wrote,Few people read editorials or opinion pages, stevefromsacto. .

I’ve heard that the opinion pages are the most read section of any paper.

Jeff wrote, Why thumb through the OCR when you can get it better and faster on the web?.

I think that’s the crux of the matter. More and more people read news only online and most expect it to be free. How they expect news organizations and reporters to provide the news for free is beyond me.