The Los Angeles Times reported:
LA Weekly’s owner, Voice Media Group, has agreed to sell the
alternative weekly newspaper as it sheds print assets and focuses on its
digital business, a representative for Voice Media confirmed Wednesday.
The focus on digital business should come as no surprise. The print media industry is in complete freefall at this point. Journalism majors are fleeing the business in large numbers since there's no money left. Pulitzer Prize winners don't get a bump in their pay, and one of them in the South Bay, Rob Kuznia of the Daily Breeze, ended up leaving journalism altogether to become a publicist at USC.
And now LA Weekly?
The buyer, Semanal Media, is a new entity created for the purpose of
this transaction, said Sara April at Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, a merger
and acquisition firm that is representing Voice Media in the sale. April would
not say who owns Semanal or where the company is based.
A mystery owner buys up the alternative paper? Wow!
Now why was this deal so secret?
The news on Twitter announces what is happening:
All editors fired at LA Weekly. One staff writer retained. https://t.co/zD1cdePNjh— Kevin Roderick (@LAObserved) November 29, 2017
WOW!
Heads are rolling for alternative media.
A reminder for anyone who has been paying attention ...
LA Weekly was a very liberal newspaper. They went after Republicans and conservatives with abandon. They loved to print the sob stories about illegal aliens and make everyone pity the foreign nationals who broke in the United States.
Gene Maddaus had his own deleterious reputation according to other reporters, and this rag played large part in bringing down the LA County Assistant Sheriff Paul Tanaka, for what it's worth.
This obituary of sorts before the final sale and culling of editors tells the story of the liberal media in Los Angeles County:
Heads are rolling for alternative media.
A reminder for anyone who has been paying attention ...
LA Weekly was a very liberal newspaper. They went after Republicans and conservatives with abandon. They loved to print the sob stories about illegal aliens and make everyone pity the foreign nationals who broke in the United States.
Gene Maddaus had his own deleterious reputation according to other reporters, and this rag played large part in bringing down the LA County Assistant Sheriff Paul Tanaka, for what it's worth.
This obituary of sorts before the final sale and culling of editors tells the story of the liberal media in Los Angeles County:
LA Weekly’s print edition is distributed throughout the city and is
free for readers to pick up. It was once thick with news and culture articles,
criticism, columns and calendar listings — and ads — but the publication and
its newsroom have shrunk in recent years as news publications struggle to make
money in the internet age. About a dozen editorial staffers remain on the
payroll.
NOT ANY MORE!
Here's a tweet from one of the editors:
We were expecting there to be some pain with the sale of @LAWeekly. But we weren't expecting the Red Wedding. That's how deep the cuts are. 1/— Mara Shalhoup (@mshalhoup) November 29, 2017
Red wedding!
Indeed. I don't watch Game of Thrones, but here's the scene (viewer discretion advised):
Indeed. I don't watch Game of Thrones, but here's the scene (viewer discretion advised):
President Trump broke them, too, I guess.
Look at the Trump Derangement Syndrome from LA Weekly's (former) music editor:
The music editor wrote anti-Trump resistance pablum for LA Weekly? Really?
They deserve to go bust. This is truly a wonderful week of winning for conservatives. I am so glad for President Trump and I am so happy that his very presence is wreaking havoc on the corrupt, liberal, and now lifeless mainstream and alternative media.
Look at the Trump Derangement Syndrome from LA Weekly's (former) music editor:
There is no better music editor than @AndyHermannLA. He also was the only L.A. Weekly staffer thinking clearly enough on election night to articulate what we all felt. https://t.co/4u5Q58Mh4t 5/— Mara Shalhoup (@mshalhoup) November 29, 2017
The music editor wrote anti-Trump resistance pablum for LA Weekly? Really?
They deserve to go bust. This is truly a wonderful week of winning for conservatives. I am so glad for President Trump and I am so happy that his very presence is wreaking havoc on the corrupt, liberal, and now lifeless mainstream and alternative media.
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