L.A. Times to Bump Breaking News

Now maybe these newspapers will learn a little about providing a news slant that reflects the people's concerns and not enable the bad guys... probably not... they will go out of business first

The paper's publisher Eddy Hartenstein struck the deal with News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch to print the Wall Street Journal’s west coast edition in the plant instead, a spokesperson confirmed.

According to two well-placed individuals, the decision to close the Orange County plant means that the Journal will take up the late print run on the Times’ one remaining plant.

That in turn has meant sacrificing news for the L.A. Times front page. The front page will now close at 6 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. and midnight, as has been the case until now.

Late-breaking news will go into a new supplement section.

The deal to print the Journal has been under discussion by Hartenstein and Murdoch -- who know each other from Hartenstein’s stint at DirectTV -- for some time. The paper already delivers the Journal. And the additional cash it represents apparently required the Times to allow a print run to accommodate the Journal’s late-breaking news.

Had the Times gotten the contract to print the Orange County Register, the printing plant there might not have had to close, and the issue could have been avoided.

None of this was evident in Hartenstein’s announcement on Thursday that late-breaking news would move from the front page to a new section.

In his memo to the staff, Hartenstein spun the decision as part of measures aimed at “streamlining” the paper, with no mention of how this might impact the effectiveness of the paper to report the news.

via aim.org

it is more likely that the Times needs to get a bunch of Corporate sponsors to grease the concerns of these companies right into the editorial. the immediate reaction is that sounds like Capitalism, but to give you an example about having no advertising and only corporate sponsorships you need to look no further then NPR and PBS. News Corp doesn't need Corporate sponsorship because they have advertising that doesn't sway editorial. ironically what we consider to be "left" and "progressive" is just appealing to the internationalist corporations that hate America as much as our worst enemies. just look at GE's former relationship with MSNBC and NBC if you don't get where I am going with this. those liberal newspapers were only liberal when it came to selling the people on self hate. that is the amusing part about all of this... what the dumb lemmings really consider to be liberal is nothing but "public relations". sure sounds good and doesn't offend... and says things like Muslims aren't violent by the Quran, but they are only attempting to make digestible places to control minds to push their products. advertising between the news is less influential then direct sponsors.