{"id":1312,"date":"2009-04-11T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/04\/11\/los-angeles-times-newspaper-died-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2009-04-11T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T21:04:51","slug":"los-angeles-times-newspaper-died-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/11\/los-angeles-times-newspaper-died-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times Newspaper Died on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/latimes-advertisement-front-page.jpg\" \/>On Thursday, April 9, 2009, The <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> newspaper placed an advertisement disguised as a column of news on its front page!&nbsp; A major American newspaper cannot do this.&nbsp; It is totally unacceptable.&nbsp; The cheapening of the LA Times over the past year due to financial problems and poor management has gradually gutted the paper.&nbsp; It&#8217;s once high-quality book review section on Sundays is now part of another section and has become a smattering of generalized culture articles.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I found out about the disguised ad on Thursday I ran to the phone and cancelled my 12-year subscription to the paper.&nbsp; The woman on the phone asked what my reason was and I told her I was disgusted by the ad placement.&nbsp; Perhaps someone in the paper&#8217;s management will realize that the end has arrived and save us all some trees by shutting down the presses and letting the reporters go work for an internet news organization.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers are in trouble.&nbsp; It&#8217;s imbeciles like the ones running the LA Times that make a recovery impossible for them.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=1ee9b5e2-1154-8a2c-92ff-49a3f87dcae0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 9, 2009, The Los Angeles Times newspaper placed an advertisement disguised as a column of news on its front page!&nbsp; A major American newspaper cannot do this.&nbsp; It is totally unacceptable.&nbsp; The cheapening of the LA Times over the past year due to financial problems and poor management has gradually gutted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,209],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-web","tag-newspaper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}