Comments on: Big Shake-up at My Hometown Rag

By: JohnH

JohnH — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:57:16 +0000

I don’t think MSM WANT to “get it” any more than academics do. They are believers in a worldview that is only reinforced by everything they see, and balance sheet issues are just someone else’s crass commercial problem. Over the weekend I spoke with a friend’s daughter who just finished J School and was thrilled to be hired by AP. Now she is calling “sources” to get statements and in other ways contributing to the quality of AP’s stories. Her J School thesis was on the vast religious right conspiracy, which she believes is one of the major problems threatening our democracy. Great. If MSM want to hire kids with these views, they are just going to lose more readers.

BTW, John Carroll lives a few blocks from me. I hope to see him in his pajamas when I jog by. I’m trying to compose a sufficiently ironic greeting.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:21:40 +0000

Katherine ó Some of them had to be janitors and people who actually work for a living…

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:07:59 +0000

ìLegacy media are in trouble everywhere and they are too encrusted with liberals to change.î

Such accusations bewilder them to no end. These credentialled elites are convinced of their objectivity and accuracy. In some respects, they are similar to an alcoholic who refuses to admit having a serious problem. There is little hope for them. This is especially true for those who are now middle-aged. They are too far behind the curve to ever catch up.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:16:34 +0000

You lost me, Richard. Why only 170?

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:46:25 +0000

Let’s see, 200 fired LAT journalists equals, what, 170 Bush/Rove exposÈ proposals FedEx’d to NY publishers,,, ?

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:54:22 +0000

Congratulations on the LA Times for appointing the first African-American editor in the paper’s history. The poor bastard.

Now when the paper has its inevitable Jayson Blairish scandal, the fat white guys have their gallguy in place, just like Raines and Little Pinch Sulzberger did…

By: Knucklehead

Knucklehead — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:49:03 +0000

I’ll join the world’s smallest violin crowd on this one. The MSM has earned whatever misery its members suffer.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:25:39 +0000

Maybe we can feed Carroll to the same Komodo dragon that almost got the Chronicle’s publisher…

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:06:54 +0000

So they sold out to buy in,in the first place, now they take a buy out to…?

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:33:11 +0000

I think that’s sic transit gloria muckraker, actually…

OK, everybody _ Cabbage Patch! (The victory dance of the large white man)

Now if the new guy just gives Ted Rall the boot…