The Los Angeles Times has had a rough go of it of late. They’ve suffered from an exodus of staff, mass layoffs, and huge financial losses. Writes RedState’s Matt Funicello:
…the news that comes with the day brings reports of an institution in full panic and chaos mode. Tuesday’s big news was that the paper will be shedding a large percentage of the newsroom staff and editors (115 people to be laid off), and two of the four remaining senior editors (ironically they came from BuzzFeed) have called it quits. This comes just a few weeks after Executive Editor Kevin Merida abruptly left, citing differences with the paper’s owner.
See: Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen: The LA Times Appears to Be in a State of Imminent Collapse
They’ve also been firing off some frankly ridiculous articles in recent weeks, one which endorsed possibly the worst, most soft-on-crime district attorneys in…