{"id":249,"date":"2006-10-07T01:59:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T08:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-11-14T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:32:11","slug":"lights-out-at-the-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Lights Out At The L.A. Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The turmoil continues at the Los Angeles Times where the Chicago mob (Tribune) is exerting more pressure. Starting with the announcement that the publisher, Jeff Johnson, has been fired and replaced by mob boss, David Hiller. Nikke Finke has the goods on Hiller<\/a>, whom the Times has soft-peddled as a tough, but charming executive. Finke’s research paints a very different, and partisan, picture:<\/p>\n

“Hiller, along with now Supreme Court Judge John Roberts and Clinton\/Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, helped serve as funnels for the right-wing think tanks to shape Reagan Administration social agenda. Hiller’s role inside the Reagan Justice Department was described to me as one of “legal hatchet man”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson’s fate was sealed when he and editor, Dean Baquet, refused to go along with Corporate’s budget and staff cuts. Baquet, for the time being, still has a job, but if Hiller pulls off Chicago’s edicts, the Times will be a worthless weed that deserves to wither. I’m starting my search for a new paper now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The turmoil continues at the Los Angeles Times where the Chicago mob (Tribune) is exerting more pressure. Starting with the announcement that the publisher, Jeff Johnson, has been fired and replaced by mob boss, David Hiller. Nikke Finke has the goods on Hiller, whom the Times has soft-peddled as a tough, but charming executive. Finke’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-los-angeles-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-41","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=278","url_meta":{"origin":249,"position":0},"title":"The Last Straw At The Los Angeles Times","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/7\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Wall Street Journal (via L.A. 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