On L.A. Times cuts, readers talk subscribing, political slant
To the editor: Having subscribed to the Los Angeles Occasions for a few years, I learn with concern that cuts needed to be made to newsroom workers.
The Occasions has a wonderful crew of seasoned reporters. The place else can one get dependable details about what’s occurring within the metropolis and in our authorities, together with the Metropolis Council, native college boards and the California Legislature? The Occasions additionally gives effective protection of enterprise, sports activities and leisure.
My favourite a part of the paper, other than the Jumble, is the Opinion web page, the place I get to be taught the ideas of many individuals, together with columnists and letter writers. A few of these persons are very vibrant; others, I think, could not learn The Occasions fairly so fastidiously.
We will all play a job in conserving our Los Angeles Occasions going sturdy by renewing our subscriptions, encouraging others to subscribe and, if one can afford it, by gifting a subscription to a youthful member of the family or good friend.
David Michels, Encino
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To the editor: When The Occasions’ new possession took over in 2018, I used to be hopeful that your paper would turn into extra truthful and balanced and entice an expanded reader base.
That seems to not have occurred. Even the sinking CNN seems to be seeing the sunshine.
Though I do get pleasure from glancing on the headlines of your steady of liberal columnists, I look ahead to the day that I’ll get pleasure from extra than simply your world-class sports activities part.
Rob Buller, Mission Viejo
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To the editor: This yr I have a good time 50 years as a every day print subscriber. Even because the paper has shrunk and shrunk lately, I’ve continued my subscription to assist the extraordinary people who deliver me my hometown information.
How do you lay off the stellar workers photographer Kent Nishimura? Or the younger, vibrant workers attempting to deliver the woeful digital house into relevance? Or the editors, copy editors and different workers shockingly laid off this week who assist make the paper make sense?
I like the ritual of studying my every day paper cowl to cowl. When there’s no extra left between the covers, an almost inevitable results of these penny-wise, pound-foolish layoffs, what precisely am I paying for?
I’m unhappy for these laid off. I’m unhappy for my metropolis. And I’m unhappy for me. Discover one other method.
Cathy Kay, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: Perhaps, simply possibly if The Occasions had a extra balanced political reporting, you’d entice a bigger readership and improve subscriptions. I can’t think about that you’ve got too many Republican readers.
Bob Case, Simi Valley
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To the editor: I’m, and can proceed to be, a supporter of The Occasions and newspapers usually. Nonetheless, it pains me to pay a whole bunch of {dollars} extra every year to your paper when its present type is a shell of the information protection that your paper used to ship.
Slicing extra newsroom jobs hardly appears to be an answer to a declining subscriber base.
Your Opinion part mentioned the California Journalism Preservation Act, which could reverse the downward spiral for print publications. Each subscriber ought to foyer our Legislature to go that legislation.
Ray McKown, Torrance
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To the editor: Freedom of the press as assured by the U.S. Structure received’t imply a lot if the press disappears as an sincere and fact-based sector.
The information enterprise can nonetheless be a very good funding, and newspapers and different information shops don’t have to lose cash to exist. However, as fact-based journalists are changed by an trade more and more supported and managed by promoting {dollars} and political messaging, actual information will ultimately disappear.
Aren’t there possibly some inventive methods to stop this? For instance, strive bifurcating a newspaper into two associated firms: one a community-supported, fact-based, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt journalistic entity, financially safe and protected against undue affect, and a second profit-oriented entity.
In any other case we’re headed towards a world the place the one data accessible might be based mostly on profitability or politics.
Les Corridor, Santa Ana
