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Clintonite, Obama-backer, and U-T publisher
I suppose what you describe is possible: that the Union-Tribune's merging with a Los Angeles Times management and staff could drive off present fond U-T readers without regaining past disgusted subscribers. It's hard for me to imagine, because I read the LA Times newspaper every morning and may look at others online during the day. I would be pleased to subscribe to an improved Union-Tribune under responsible management. There's a lot of obscurantist talk surrounding future possibilities coming from wunderkind publisher Beutner himself and that too makes me worry. I guess we'll have to wait and see. As I said, the news doesn't seem as wonderful as it did at first blush.— May 12, 2015 10:22 p.m.
Clintonite, Obama-backer, and U-T publisher
Chicken-licken, the sky IS falling! Uber-One-Per-Center Austin Beutner will be publishing our news show -- without benefit of newspaper experience or any past commitment to the Fourth Estate -- but it appears he is a certifiable Democratic dilettante and wheeler-dealer from New York City, Washington,D.C. and lately, El-Ay. Will publisher Beutner be in it for the long run? For real journalism quality in San Diego? The only thing that's held his long-term attention seems to be his lucrative hedge fund Evercore and palling with slicksters like Friends of Bill Everywhere. And oh-oh, how come his first in-person interviews last week were given to KPBS (with its Irwin and Joan Jacobs Newsroom) and to Voice of San Diego (which lives off sustaining Jacobs' contributions and other smaller gifts?) Jacobs is a big-name national Dem money-bundler and contributor who is always seeking more behind-the scenes political power here. Maybe we are changing one doctrinaire master for another. May we have never deserved a great independent local newspaper. And maybe they are even going to pull the plug on the great LA Times as I have known and loved it. (Times earnings posted for the first quarter of this year were down hugely from the previous year same time.) None of this Beutner background from Matt Potter makes me feel as hopey as I did last week, even though I appreciate it.— May 12, 2015 12:13 a.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
You are telescoping a period of 30+ years here between the 1978 opening of the San Diego edition of the Los Angeles Times and the 2009 sale of the Union-Tribune to Platinum Equity. If the Union-Tribune was awash in do-little employees for all that time, maybe the Platinum Equity housecleaning was past due. They at least brought in a competent editor. And I disagree that the Los Angeles Times' superb staffing of its edition was an "invasion." I recall it as a gift that our doltish brain-washed "America's Finest City" populace never managed to appreciate.— May 9, 2015 11:12 p.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
Let's hope so.— May 9, 2015 10:50 p.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
There is no analogy between Manchester's extinction of the North County Times and the Los Angeles Times'/Tribune Co. purchase of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The former was a strong-arm snuffing of an adequate local paper. We now can hope for an editorial "morning in San Diego" for our exhausted metropolitan daily. Why wouldn't a quality new San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper succeed? A paper shorn of its ridiculous fuddy-duddyness, its ultra-conservative editorial stranglehold, its imported right-wing scribes from the Koch Brothers stable? With the LA Times as a standard, we'll get a well-staffed paper with a strong publisher who believes in the importance of the Fourth Estate to the community, someone whose editor encourages investigative reporting and actually prints without cutting good stories to ribbons. Your NCT example is testament to people's desire to have a decent local paper: when it goes away, why would they pick up a rag? In San Diego henceforth, people will have an infinitely better Union-Tribune to read every day.— May 9, 2015 10:45 p.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
Defining "millennial" is a good thing. Like "red state/blue state," which I never could keep straight, "millennial" was never clear either, even though widely used. I never could describe what any of the generational jargon really meant: "boomers," "Gen X," "millennials." Then the other day I read that millennials are people between the ages of 18 and 35, which fits Don's description. As for dwbat, I was hoping you were old enough to remember the past and were not a heedless whippersnapper, aka millennial. Also, I think your photographic conflations are very funny.— May 9, 2015 9:52 p.m.
Billions of dirty ore dollars
It must be terrible to live in Blue places like La Jolla and Rancho Santa Fe and yet be landholders of uranium-contaminated property that has proved deadly to Navajo Native Americans in distant New Mexico. In some areas of the Navajo reservation, water has to be trucked-in in plastic barrels, because what comes out of the tap is unsafe for human consumption.— May 8, 2015 2:21 p.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
Don't forget "off-shoring." (Oppose the fast-track Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership.)— May 8, 2015 12:01 p.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
I am reassured you DO remember perfectly: the Sunday Los Angeles Times was so big and ad-heavy the house shook when it was thrown against the front door. (In those olden days, I asked to have it thrown on the front porch, not in the driveway under the car.)— May 8, 2015 11:58 a.m.
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million
You are just trying to make me worry. If there is a God, She will not further punish local long-time LAT subscribers by taking away their daily newspaper which includes news of Los Angeles, an interesting pace-setting place. We hope for a melding of staffs and a general journalistic improvement of what has been the Union-Tribune without depriving us of LAT cartoonists, writers' and columnists' voices.— May 8, 2015 11:52 a.m.