You want to know what's wrong with the MSM? Via David Sirota, here's a quote from Charles Bobrinskoy:
"[The LA Times] has got these 22 foreign bureaus...That's not what readers want. Readers care about the local entertainment industry...They care about things like fashion...Where the problem is, is that the people who are writing the L.A. Times, they want to be writing about international events. They want to be writing long-term pieces about why Bush went to war in Iraq. And we're saying, and the people at Tribune are saying, there are other people writing those stories...Do we really need the L.A. Times devoting the resources it has to that story?"
Bobrinskoy, by the way, is vice-chairman of the investment company that is part-owner of The Tribune Company, which owns, among other media outlets, the LA Times. Sirota notes that he is a major Republican donor. I checked -- he is also a major Democratic donor, although it looks as though the Republicans have gotten the bulk of his donations.
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