The Blob

Monday, October 06, 2003

A big ship with a broken rudder

The editorial standards of the Los Angeles Times seems ever more broken as the California gubernatorial campaign winds down. I have often looked to the media for some guidance and independent thinking on important matters of the day. But the Los Angeles Times seems to have broken down entirely with highly partisan reporting and openly transparent editorializing.

Readers have noticed. The Times is being inundated with angry calls, letters and demands from readers to cancel their subscriptions. And for good reason.

No better example can be seen in the horribly written, angry rant by Times columnist Steve Lopez, Arnold vs. The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. Calling your readers idiots is not only a bad way to sell newspapers. It shows that the Los Angeles Times has become a rudderless ship, and has been reduced to a mere mouthpiece of Gray Davis and his minions.

I would think that a newspaper's editors would apply some brakes to an out-of-control columnist. It might even consider editing. In the case of the Times, when the smoke and passion of this ugly election clears, and their editorial review board (if they have any) looks inward, they won't like what they see.

From far away, I can say this: I don't like what I see now.

Cancel my subscription. Please.

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