I think it is funny that “newspapers are a dying business” when the people running them are reaping 20% or greater profits quarterly.

I think that publicly traded corporate control of newspapers is a dying business.

People really really like good, real, news. The problem is, they don’t like it at an ever increasing rate for all time.

There is another network of papers in South L.A. I remember dealing with – Cerritos, Artesia, and Norwalk all had essentially one HQ pumping out multiple “community” papers.

It made my job as a field rep easy – only a few people to send press releases to!

The Weekly just printed an article about how this business strategy is nosediving:
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/singletons-small-town-la-papers-nosedive/18641/

The Daily Breeze is owned by the Copley News Service, which is probably the source of the editorial.

WTF?! Are those papers published by the same company or something? That is sort of extraordinary.

Oh … wait … they are both part of the “LA.com Network”. That explains it. They take content and publish it in different markets.

Bastards.

Seriously, write a proper response, add a fake address to each response (make it look like you came from the different media markets). Send your response in, and watch it get published in their “Letters” section!

Works every time! Just make sure the letter is a good ‘un.

When I worked in the Assembly, if I wrote a press release properly, the local press would copy and paste what I wrote and print it in their next addition. Typos and all.

I think that some sort of lobbying group simply sent this “story” to the papers. Get Transit Coalition to write a pro-Feuer article and send it to the local papers as a response – and see what happens.

Truly a concerted effort to stop this bill, on such a phony easily dismissed premise too.

This was my comment in response to the Press Telegram article:

You fail to see the connection between global climate, local traffic, and air pollution?

Are you kidding me?

Public transit has mostly to do with providing bus and rail transportation for low-income workers?

Is this a joke?

Let me get you up to speed:

Cars sitting in traffic emit carbon and other toxins which cause air pollution which leads to global warming. People drive because there are no alternatives. Public transportation is an alternative. Unlike, say food stamps, anyone can ride public transportation, you don’t have to be below a certain income level. More people using transportation alternatives means less people using cars. Less people using cars means less cars idling in traffic which means less carbon and other toxins expelled into the air which means less air pollution which helps the whole global warming problem.

Let’s hope voters are smarter than you.