Society also places values on things by allotting them monies. The LA Times faces financial ruin and imminent lay-offs while the agency it has spent the better part of forty-five years it attempts to demonize gets a nice, new big building, no-less overlooking the Times, and a larger budget to boot. In these tough financial times it is clear that keeping Angelinos safe is more important than advising them of what new band is playing in Hollywood tonight.
Where are the priorities of the people of Los Angeles? Ask the elected officials and most will tell you public safety is number one. Where does the need for a city major newspaper rate in such a question? Well, with the Internet and so many other forms of instant media, it factors less and less.
If the LA Times would have focused on quality reporting, intelligent editing, and strived to be the top paper in the country instead of crusading or re-hashing old stories with little or no investigative angle, and questionable interest level, then possibly that paper would have found itself in a more tenable position. Instead, the newspaper that only writes a positive word about its’ police force after a tragic death of one of its members is not worthy of my patronage or time, and apparently it is not worth yours either.
