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June 9, 2005
A Bad Day for Newsprint
Because I can't find a way to link to a single entry I'll just quote the whole damn thing and let you scroll -- Mr. Mickey Kaus finds yet another reason the major media are headed for reorganization (caution - he hates the Los Angeles Times. He may be justified, but the feeling is quite palpable.):
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
A dramatic 75-mile car chase shuts down a major Southern California freeway for four hours and makes the national NBC Nightly News--but doesn't make the front page of the L.A. Times. It doesn't even make the front page of the local ("California") B-section of the L.A. Times. (There's a teaser for the story, which is on page B3.) The people who edit this paper have no clue. ... Massive layoffs--please! Update: The L.A. Daily News, the LAT's smaller, Valley-based rival, of course makes the freeway drama its lead story. That's because the Daily News is a newspaper. [As opposed to?--ed. A giant wet blanket smothering any spark of civic engagement in America's second-largest city! ... Sorry, that just sort of popped out.] Update 2: The story did make the front of the second section in the LAT's "Orange County Edition." (The chase was nowhere near Orange County. They must just have sharper editors than the main L.A. edition. But it should have been on A1, not B1, even in the O.C.)
4:02 A.M.
All emphases and typeface changes his.
I also recommend Circulation Dropping, for all your firing-of-major-news-corporation-executives-for-falsifying-circulation-records reading.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 9, 2005 6:57 PM