Comments on: L.A. Times loses another editor http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/01/21/la-times-loses-another-editor/ Brian Fuller's blog on the state of media and communications Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:03:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Loring Wirbel http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/01/21/la-times-loses-another-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Loring Wirbel Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:41:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=251#comment-300 And you know who serves the inner metro community best in most cities, Lou? Those daily metro freebies they give away at the exits of subway stops. And you know who serves the inner metro community best in most cities, Lou? Those daily metro freebies they give away at the exits of subway stops.

]]> By: Lou Covey http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/01/21/la-times-loses-another-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Lou Covey Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:02:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=251#comment-299 There's a larger trend going on here that we might be missing. The LA Times grew by knocking out competing publications in other areas of LA, creating the media giant we know now. But if advertising and readership is dropping, that means the Times has ceased to be of value to the people and business of the community, as well as the corporate organizations that buy most of the advertising.<br/><br/>Perhaps it is time for the LA Times to start reducing it's coverage area, rather than figure out how to cover the vast LA Basin, and allow smaller community focused pubs to flourish. <br/><br/>Maybe the days of the large metroplex newspaper is over and it's time for real community to rise up in LA. There’s a larger trend going on here that we might be missing. The LA Times grew by knocking out competing publications in other areas of LA, creating the media giant we know now. But if advertising and readership is dropping, that means the Times has ceased to be of value to the people and business of the community, as well as the corporate organizations that buy most of the advertising.

Perhaps it is time for the LA Times to start reducing it’s coverage area, rather than figure out how to cover the vast LA Basin, and allow smaller community focused pubs to flourish.

Maybe the days of the large metroplex newspaper is over and it’s time for real community to rise up in LA.

]]> By: Loring Wirbel http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/01/21/la-times-loses-another-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Loring Wirbel Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:15:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=251#comment-298 Editors can develop a universal language in "dialogue-ing" with publishers: "ESAD." (Eat Shit and Die).<br/><br/>There was a Firesign Theatre sketch where editors were supposed to universally confront media owners with guns a-blazing, screaming "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs." Except that they muffed their lines and screamed "Eat fascist death, flaming media pigs." Forgot the point of that story, though it was cute at the time. Editors can develop a universal language in “dialogue-ing” with publishers: “ESAD.” (Eat Shit and Die).

There was a Firesign Theatre sketch where editors were supposed to universally confront media owners with guns a-blazing, screaming “Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs.” Except that they muffed their lines and screamed “Eat fascist death, flaming media pigs.” Forgot the point of that story, though it was cute at the time.

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