Ex-LAT Robert Scheer Acting Out From Hurt of Being Dumped
We don’t like to be snarky but reading Robert Scheer whining comments posted at LA Observed really rubs us the wrong way. Such a display obligates us to add our pithy comments to his quotes:
They [the Los Angeles Times] have 300,000 fewer readers now than when I went to work there nearly thirty years ago….
Maybe that’s why they are making changes.
I start at the San Francisco Chronicle next week.
Lucky them.
But I’m still standing; the paper may collapse.
Mighty fine opinion of our self-worth do we?
Let them [LAT editors] know readers don’t like being treated with contempt.
We do but so far we’ve been ignored until now (other than getting the LAT to once print a retraction/correction).
I hear the publisher is walking around in a daze. Didn’t anticipate these protest, the level of outrage.
We bet that is exactly what’s happening.
Source: LA Observed
Update: LA Observed (who else) reports that the Los Angeles Times Outdoor Section is soon to be no more. Honestly, we’re not surprised as there were days where there were only a few ads to carry it. That said, it was an enjoyable section that will be missed. Let’s see if the Outdoor Section writers pull a Scheer? Something tells me that they won’t and will leave with a sense of class and realism that things change.
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