Los Angeles Magazine
Kyle Palmer, the Los Angeles Times' right-wing political editor in the 1940s and '50s, was feared, notes
RJ Smith. "Does anybody fear the Times these days?" he asks. "One reason
Ron Burkle and
Eli Broad and the rest are so inscrutable is that they don’t have to open up -- the Times fears them more than they worry about what the paper might do. Columnists
Steve Lopez and
T.J. Simers should just be the beginning; it’s time to have some reporters who are licensed to kill." PLUS: More suggestions for "rescuing a newspaper that deserves to be." ||
Kit Rachlis writes: "The next five years will probably be rockier than the previous five" for the paper.
