Kurt Andersen vs. Michael Kinsley on the LA Times
Everybody wants to get into the act: first, Michael Kinsley, one-time LA Times absentee editor of the opinion page, thinks he knows how to fix the paper. Considering he’s the guy who hired Joel Stein, FBLA isn’t excited about the rest of his ideas. He admits:
On the editorial page (I can reveal, from the safety of hindsight) we initially had 15 people producing 21 editorials a week!
His big idea? Basically, eliminate it. As he wrote in a Times op-ed:
But now imagine the Tribune chain as a single newspaper with separate editions in each of its cities.
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