David Geffen’s To-Do List After Buying the Los Angeles Times
According to our sources, these are the first things David Geffen will do if he buys the Los Angeles Times:
- Update comics section with same 3-D digital technology used to make Shrek.
- Require music critic Robert Hilburn to issue retroactive corrections on all Geffen-related albums that received less-than-stellar reviews over the past 30 years.
- Change name to LA Times SKG
- Sports section: Gone. Steve Lopez: Gone.
- Launch a special multi-part investigative series on Disney.
- In a cost-cutting move fold the “Valley” edition while simultaneously launching a new “Malibu” edition. (Note that uniformed guards will ensure that this new edition will remain unaccessible to non-residents).
- In order to preserve journalistic integrity will promise to limit his personal editorial influence to what is written in the Front Page, Business, and Calendar Sections.
- Roll it up into his other purchases: NY Times, Wall St. Journal, Boston Globe, etc.
- Finally finish the job of crushing all competing papers in Southern California.
- Expose Independent Sources for the frauds that they are.
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September 21st, 2005 at 8:55 am
? Steve Lopez says he didn’t mean all those things he wrote before David Geffen expressed interest in buying the Times. And Independent Sources comes up with a to-do list for Geffen after he takes over.