Comments on: LA Times runs fake-news front-page ad, staff protests

By: Greatest Hits: Apr. 13, 2009 | Whatever Is Right

Greatest Hits: Apr. 13, 2009 | Whatever Is Right — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:31:19 +0000

[...] LA Times blurs line between fake, real news with front-page ad – Ed Morrissey (Hot Air) [...]

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:18:20 +0000

Just the left coast version of the NYT. Hopefully both will end up in the dust bin of history, wailing and crying “of what might have been” if only the rubes had followed their instructions.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:37:13 +0000

What’s the big deal? They’ve been selling these spaces to Leftist Politicians, Activists, and Organizations for years.

- The Cat

By: regmgr

regmgr — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:48:13 +0000

Hey, it makes a great bird cage liner!

By: davo

davo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:59:33 +0000

Next week it will be a two headed cow and space aliens among us. Can you say, “Circling the drain”?

By: drunyan8315

drunyan8315 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:41:12 +0000

Let me see if I’ve got this right: now that you have prostitued yourselves by lying and obfuscating the truth in order to get a total incompetant elected, you suddenly expect me to care that your management is a bunch of lying whores too?

Really? What in heavens name could make me care? A pox on all your houses.

By: PresidenToor

PresidenToor — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:35:55 +0000

Ads = Money; No Ads = No Money.

Reporters can’t do math?

By: small dead animals

small dead animals — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:46:24 +0000

Not Waiting For The Asteroid…

*……

By: simeon

simeon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:38:36 +0000

I used to work the journalism "beat" in Los Angeles, and I can honestly state that the motto of the L.A. Times ( or any other media outlet for that matter) was never the public relations statement, "Fear God, Tell the Truth and Make Money," but rather, "Fear we do not have enough of our god, money; and the Truth is whatever we tell you it is," followed by the all-important "make our viewpoints and secular belief system the focus of our work to convert the public to our value system" (which is completely contrary to the 10 Commandments and promotes the devil-inspired aleister crowley commandment, "do what thou wilt"). And if anyone thinks the devil isn't the prince of the media, one of the kingdoms of the world, think again.

By: warbaby

warbaby — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:10:02 +0000

the journalists of the newsroom…our willingness to report the truth, even when it angers powerful interests or puts us in peril…our integrity and our journalistic standards.

Riiight.

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:31:45 +0000

Change you can believe in.

By: logis

logis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:22:54 +0000

This is a very bad sign for newspapers.

Not because of the “loss of credibility” nonsense; that’s a load of horse manure. But because it’s a sign that advertisers are re-evaluating the effectiveness of their marketing venues.

Most businesses are run by hard-nosed individuals, but they often treat their choice in advertising venue like picking out their ties — as women’s work. That’s why advertising agencies are run by airheads and light-loafers.

And that’s also why many forms of media, even failing liberal media, tend to get more ad placement than common sense would dictate. But when times get tough, advertising is one of the first things companies re-evaluate.

There are STILL plenty of companies advertising in the Yellow Pages. Think about it: when is the last time you, or even anybody you know, actually used a paper book to get a phone number? They might as well put smoke signal codes in there.

In terms of wasted ad dollars, newspapers today are a very close second to Yellow Pages. They outlived their usefulness more than a decade ago, and the market is only now beginning to figure that out.

By: TexAz

TexAz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:16:52 +0000

That was the best piece of journalism I have read in the LAT in years. And now I learn it was fake! What is the world coming to.

By: PattyJ

PattyJ — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:09:43 +0000

Of course it’s an ad by NBC, the most left of the networks. And Southland is not good. It has the typical memes: the cruel, heartless LAPD, the mean streets of LA, the cops the same as the bad guys, yada yada.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:01:56 +0000

We the journalists of the newsroom strenuously object to the decision to sell an ad, in the form of a phony news story, on the front page of the Los Angeles Times.

Wait…since when are there any journalists in the newsroom of the LA Times??

By: jukin

jukin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:43:19 +0000

The Los Angeles Times stands apart from other sources of news and information in Southern California because of our willingness to report the truth, even when it angers powerful interests or puts us in peril.

How long did LAT’s collective staff’s noses grow when they wrote that?

By: volsense

volsense — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:35 +0000

The only thing that could be sicker is to actually pay the subscription price to support this garbage.

By: Ryan Gandy

Ryan Gandy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:30:59 +0000

The LA Times editors said this?

Placing a fake news article on A-1 makes a mockery of our integrity and our journalistic standards.

This from the newspaper that had no problem front-paging a fake news story about a Marine shooting an Iraqi girl?

Spare me.

By: LTC John

LTC John — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:25:52 +0000

“a new way to monetize their product”

I rather like the motto of local newspaper’s founder (way back in the 19th Century) We have three aims; Fear God, Tell the Truth and Make Money. Perhaps they are causally related?

By: d1carter

d1carter — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:28 +0000

Tick-Tock…

By: BakerAllie

BakerAllie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:22:01 +0000

No sympathy from me either. Since when have newspapers cared about facts lately. At least this article blatently showed the NBC logo at the top of it. They have no problems making up statistics or publishing tabloid trash about Sarah Palin, but suddenly this comprimises their standards?
Boo-fricken-hoo.

By: TheSitRep

TheSitRep — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:18:18 +0000

Pride goes before a fall.

By: Christian Conservative

Christian Conservative — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:16:37 +0000

That was the truest story on that paper’s front page in years! Let them eat bankruptcy!

By: volsense

volsense — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:14:57 +0000

When you are perpetually printing lies on your front page anyway, why not make a buck by selling the front page for a few pieces of silver.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:01:59 +0000

How is the ad any different than the other news on the front page?

notagool on April 10, 2009 at 10:55 AM

What is the difference in this and the Obama campaign? Besides the amount of money involved…