The once great Los Angeles Times

Talented, experienced journalists are now leaving the Los Angeles Times, and we alums feel depressed about the toll their departures will take on their lives and on Southern California.
Kevin Roderick reported on his LA Observed website (to which I am a contributor) that more than 70 people in the Times editorial department applied for the buyouts the Times’ owners are offering to reduce the size of an editorial staff that has already dropped from 1,000 to about 500. Daily weekday circulation, once more than a million, has dropped to 370,990, according to the Statista website. Advertising also has taken a heavy hit. If you are one of the dwindling number of home delivery subscribers, the decline is evident every time you pick up your thin morning paper or look early in the morning at the front stoops of your neighbors.
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