LA Times Fires Its Film Box Office Guy

COMMENTS (7)

• An insider told me the Los Angeles Times is now looking for a low-cost freelancer to do it.
  I would suggest they look to the two low-cost movie reviewers Ben Manhiewicz and Ben Lyons..
  They have all the qualifacations -Their fathers were famous and they work cheap….or cheaper.

  Comment by jane — Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 6:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• Typical of the LA Times to replace an expert with a novice. As Bob Woodward once said, “If the Washington Post covered Washington the way the Los Angeles Times covers Hollywood, we’d be out of business.”

  Comment by Buddy Bing — Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 11:18am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sad. The Times is a shell of its former self. How long can it stay in business this way?

  LA Weekly is an excellent paper. Perhaps it will inherit the mantle for being LA’s paper.

  Comment by helenofpeel — Saturday November 1, 2008 @ 6:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Replace an expert with a novice? Yes We Can!

  Comment by billypaintbrush — Sunday November 2, 2008 @ 11:27am PST  Reply to this post

• Couldn’t a monkey spew out box office numbers?

  Comment by C. — Sunday November 2, 2008 @ 2:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• The LA Times is now nothing more than a ‘skinny’ little information sheet.

  To me, the paper no longer exists.

  Comment by Bill M. — Sunday November 2, 2008 @ 8:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• ” Ben Manhiewicz and Ben Lyons..they have all the qualifacations -Their fathers were famous.”

  Qualifications for nepotism.

  How about qualifications for the job?

  Comment by jane's evil sister — Friday November 7, 2008 @ 11:19am PST  Reply to this post