Opinion: Update: Times v. Tribune Coverage
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The Chandler-Tribune fued has triggered two L.A. Times items of interest the last few days.
The first was a profile of Tribune Co. CEO Douglas FitzSimons by Thomas Mulligan in Tuesday’s paper.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt called the piece an all-out attack on Tribune by its ungrateful and unreformable employees:
This is a classic hit piece, standard fare for the Times, but usually reserved for a politician that the paper has decided must go.
Former Times staffer Ken Reich at Take Back The Times attacked FitzSimons, saying that the piece showed the Times feels mistreated:
This is no surprise. It means what has become obvious, that FitzSimons cares far more about making money than he does about journalistic quality. He has even selfishly raised his own salary, while Tribune fortunes sink.
The second piece is a column by Steve Lopez, who attacks Tribune executives as ‘corporate profiteers,’ and tries to convince local billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad, among others, to buy the paper.