{"id":1146,"date":"2009-02-17T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/american-newspapers-and-the-los-angeles-times.html"},"modified":"2009-02-17T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:24:00","slug":"american-newspapers-and-the-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/american-newspapers-and-the-los-angeles-times.html","title":{"rendered":"American Newspapers and the Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SZsTQ9pfv6I\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/N0DVDXmOglA\/s1600-h\/WRpaper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SZsTQ9pfv6I\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/N0DVDXmOglA\/s320\/WRpaper.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>OVER the last few months, the only thing i&#8217;ve heard more than Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s line &#8212; that he would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers &#8212; is people telling me they plan to cancel their LA Times subscription.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i can&#8217;t say i&#8217;m surprised by this &#8212; the paper has become a poster child of bad ownership recently, and it&#8217;s lost so many talented staffers, in some cases in a heartless manner, i wont even get started.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>but it always saddens me when people do that &#8212; not only because it hurts the whole culture when people do that, but because this (falling subscription rates) is what got us into this mess in the first place, and will get us deeper if people keep doing it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>these issues and more are dealt with very incisively in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=426c08c4-93ac-434b-b45c-a1f0b28013a3&#038;k=61130\">this New Republic story<\/a> by my former colleagues Joe Mathews, who like me comes from a journalism family.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Joe begins the story wondering, Should i cancel my LAT subscription? he asks, and then: what is lost when a paper and its news gathering operation fades away?\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superstock.com\/\">Superstock<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVER the last few months, the only thing i&#8217;ve heard more than Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s line &#8212; that he would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers &#8212; is people telling me they plan to cancel their LA Times subscription. i can&#8217;t say i&#8217;m surprised by this &#8212; the paper has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journalism","7":"category-la-times","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}