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Saturday, June 19, 2004 |
Buh Bye, Ross Newhan
Jon reports that Ross Newhan will be leaving the Times after this season, victim of a round of budget cuts. The prospect that Los Angeles Times readers should be made to suffer in order to present the best Cubs team possible -- recall that the Tribune Company owns the Cubs -- might sit well with my wife, but it's unsettling to me. This is not least because the Tribune Company's Times division just won five Pulitzer Prizes, the most ever for that paper. On the other hand, will anyone notice? As one participant in the L.A. Observed discussion put it, "[The complaint about specific bylines leaving the paper] assumes the readers are demanding to see the work of all these reporters, and will suffer for the loss of these bylines. I don't think circulation or advertising figures indicate any such thing, especially with respect to Metro/California." Ross Newhan might fall into that category, especially if this gastrointestinally disturbing comment on Jon's blog
Well, it's alright, I've always hated LA and guess what boys? The Old Grey Lady has given me an offer I can't refuse. The LA Times can portray it as a "buyout". I call it a promotion to the Show.is indeed from him. We might not care. In fact, some of us might actively enjoy watching him write into the Yankee sunset. There's no small irony in leaving the Dodgers beat as age, enormous contracts, a barren farm system, and ultimately, Steinbrenner's approaching senescence make it appear the Yankees' charted course is towards a decade or two of high-priced futility once their stars dim. Certainly, whipping boy Dan Evans can get a rearview giggle reading Newhan's half-baked advice about ex-Dodger Eric Karros, especially now that Karros' line is .165/.221/.291 on the season, with three hits in thirteen at-bats for June.
On the other hand, Newhan has managed to tickle my prejudices when he wasn't inflaming them. To the extent he's gotten a story out that surprisingly few people wanted to hear (and some to this day would be happier if it were never told), bully for him. I wish Newhan well in New York; like so many LA-haters, the sooner he's out of here, the better. Misery loves company, goes the saw; Manhattan is its proof.
Comments:
I'm baffled how anyone could work for a city for decades if they hate it? (anyways who knows if that was actually from Newhan.)
mattkew
mattkew
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: 6/19/2004 08:39:00 PM
: 6/19/2004 08:39:00 PM
Hard to imagine that a Pulitzer prize winner wouldn't be able to correctly spell the two words, "all right".
Y'know, the LA Times probably isn't cutting payroll in order to increase the Cubs' payroll. Probably the unit itself isn't profitable.
Not only do I not like the implication that Times readers are suffering at the hands of the Cubs' owners, I resent it.
Not only do I not like the implication that Times readers are suffering at the hands of the Cubs' owners, I resent it.
Hardly the point. Assume we take MLB's contention that most baseball teams are losing money at face value. (Doug Pappas would have us believe otherwise, but that's immaterial here.) If the Cubs are losing money and the Times is losing money... well, the Tribune Company's first love is Chicago.
Well, I don't believe the Cubs are losing money. They're the #1 NL road draw, and every home game this season is sold out. Plus, the Trib has gotten away with their very own scalping system, AND they get rooftop revenue, plus TV money.
I don't know how the money is distributed, but there's some kind of revenue sharing agreement in MLB, and the Cubs are one of a very few teams who contribute to the funds that go to small market teams.
I don't know how the money is distributed, but there's some kind of revenue sharing agreement in MLB, and the Cubs are one of a very few teams who contribute to the funds that go to small market teams.
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