Magnificent Obsession: Patterico’s Annual Summary Skewering of What’s Left of the LA Times
This one for 2006 is going to leave a mark, as Patterico has left marks all year long and in previous years:
- 2005
- 2004 Part 1 (Presidential Election)
- 2004 Part 2 (the rest of the year’s events)
- 2003
Read the whole thing.
Patterico’s annual litanies represent a microcosm of what’s wrong with the formerly Mainstream Media. One wonders that the LA Times hasn’t lost more of its subscriber base than it has (which is a lot). The unwillingness to change in the face of a deteriorating situation that is primarily traced to newsroom bias and ignorance is nothing short of business suicide. In the absence of solving that, all the money in the world from David Geffen or whomever won’t turn things around.
