Comments on: NB to LA Times: a little legWORK goes a long way too http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JackD http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715/comment-page-1#comment-1102085 JackD Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:50:23 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715#comment-1102085 Chicago lost Second City status to LA? Who knew? Chicago lost Second City status to LA? Who knew?

]]> By: zinya http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715/comment-page-1#comment-1102062 zinya Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:38:21 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715#comment-1102062 Yeah. An apt metaphor, I suppose, given how much sand there is here for her to tell us to go pound. Grrr. Yes, it is definitely declining. Went over early on real big here when the big cheeses in Chicago declared that the LA Times was mis-geared as a national paper and that clearly what LA Times readers wanted was more glitz and Hollywood coverage and the kind of crap that led to introducing a new section called "Image." [I think -- not entirely implausibly -- that it's a Chicago revenge for losing Second City status to LA, thinking they can make the LAT knuckle under to the Trib. Whadayathink, windy towner?] Yeah. An apt metaphor, I suppose, given how much sand there is here for her to tell us to go pound.

Grrr. Yes, it is definitely declining. Went over early on real big here when the big cheeses in Chicago declared that the LA Times was mis-geared as a national paper and that clearly what LA Times readers wanted was more glitz and Hollywood coverage and the kind of crap that led to introducing a new section called “Image.” [I think -- not entirely implausibly -- that it's a Chicago revenge for losing Second City status to LA, thinking they can make the LAT knuckle under to the Trib. Whadayathink, windy towner?]

]]> By: JackD http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715/comment-page-1#comment-1102055 JackD Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:57:45 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1715#comment-1102055 Looks like Feinstein is in a position to tell the critics to pound sand and, in effect, is doing so. My brother, out in southern Cal, has maintained the decline of the LAT dates to its acquisition by the Tribune Company. Looks like Feinstein is in a position to tell the critics to pound sand and, in effect, is doing so. My brother, out in southern Cal, has maintained the decline of the LAT dates to its acquisition by the Tribune Company.

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