MoveOn: Save L.A. Times from from corporate greed!

[joefree1]

The Los Angeles Times announced it is slashing 85 people from its news staff, despite millions in corporate profits. This means watered-down coverage of local, state and national news. Politicians and corporations who should be held accountable by vigilant watchdog journalism will instead be covered by a staff that is stretched too thin.

Equally outrageous, Californians are being deceived about why these cuts are happening. Despite reaping huge profits that most businesses would envy, the Times' corporate owners in Chicago simply aren't satisfied—they want more. Instead of admitting this, the Times points to things like "rising newsprint costs" to distract the public from the real reason for the cuts.

The Times' corporate owners think they can get away with this because nobody is paying attention. But we're starting a petition to show the strong public opposition to these cuts.

Please sign the petition to the Los Angeles Times and its corporate owners demanding no news cuts by clicking here:

http://civic.moveon.org/latimescuts/

I've already canceled my subscriptions after they fired Robert Scheer. Sorry to see this paper go yellow.

[joefree1]

1. Kick

[laugle]

2. Kick