TJ Simers on changes in Los Angeles Times sports section going into effect Monday

The new sports page sucks

 

Somebody should tell TJ that the bitter angry old man look isn’t good.

 

Eh. He's right about the new LAT sports page - moronic idea, New Coke level - and Alden.

 

Out of curiosity, and for information, I looked up the story in The Atlantic that Simers referenced. Here it is -- good in all its awfulness:

A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms

 

Yeah, this article was long, but definitely worth reading for some good perspective. Too much perspective.

Along the way to finishing it, I, somehow, thought of two long ago scenes of TV-watching from my youth. (Crazy, I know, but really, they kind of make sense, in a terrible kind of way, and the memories floated up from out of nowhere).

Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, in which Greg makes a movie about the first settlers from the Mayflower in America, and talks about how, over the course of their first winter, the pilgrims "grew sicker, and sicker. And sicker"? That occurred to me as I read about these pillaged papers.

And, remember that Growing Pains episode where Carol Seaver tries her hand at newspaper writing for the school journalism class, and uses her smarts to show off her vocabulary instead of keeping in mind to "keep it simple, Stupid?" Her teacher was critical in correcting her, remarking, in a like tone to make his point that her article "was replete with stinky-osity."

Yeah, that would be an apt description of Alden, and its approach to newspapers. You get that, in full force. Wow.

 

TJ isn't skilled enough to be pulling this third act.

He's the old guy in that meme who accidentally drags the hard drive to the trash.