Latest Calendar Layoffs From LA Times

COMMENTS (6)

• Funny how the news division — thank you editors — is killing the paper, and yet they fire the people working in the sections that are actually read. It’s amazing how clueless these “news” people truly are about business, and yet they feel they can report on it.

  I was once told by a friend who was very successful in the Restaurant business, that you can tell when a restaurant is about to fold. The restaurant will cut back on ingredients in the food. That, he said was a sign they were doomed. People will eat in dives for good food, they will suffer abysmal service for good food, but they won’t suffer bad quality unless they are forced to do so. That never occurs in a restaurant, more than once.

  When you destroy your reason for being, you destroy yourself. LAT could learn a bit from restaurants.

  Comment by Mark — Monday October 27, 2008 @ 4:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Aside from the editorial folks, there were an additional 30 or so let go last week on the business side at The Times. From the names I heard, most were old timers, ‘legacy’ employees from the past regime and all over 40 years of age. The most egregious was the forcing out of Caroline Thorpe, who had been the executive assistant to the publishers for 40(!) years.
  Nice going, Eddy!! Also some ‘demotions’…meaning that they want to get rid of these folks, but want them to resign rather than give them a payout. What a mess!!

  Comment by Queenie — Monday October 27, 2008 @ 6:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Christian Science Monitor is going to online edition only. Are the LAT and NYT far behind?

  Comment by Uh-oh — Tuesday October 28, 2008 @ 10:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• Does anyone actually like the LA Times?

  Comment by MJS — Wednesday October 29, 2008 @ 3:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yes,I still love reading the LA Times. I certainly hope California hasn’t gone to reading “snipits” of news on the internet or the television. Reading newsprint… what a concept. It’s relaxing and better for your eyes. Times is a great paper.

  Comment by Lori — Friday October 31, 2008 @ 4:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The L.A. Times coverage of issues keeps is a lifeline for many of us in the rural areas where crime, local scandals, and violence passes for “news”.

  Comment by ccesena — Sunday June 14, 2009 @ 8:38pm PDT  Reply to this post