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

Soccer, the fastest growing sport in the U.S. since 1950

 

My dead tree Sunday LA Times isn't a complete waste. We are painting a closet door today, and I laid some newspaper down on the garage floor to catch paint.

 

Probably poor quality newsprint and leaked through.

 

Wife's friend found 100-year-old newspapers inside the walls during a recent reno.

Sizable paper always has its utilities.

 

A look at some of the readers' actual reactions to the LAT Sports changes:

Letters to Sports: Readers sound off about changes to Times Sports section

 

My family had the last evening edition of The Boston Globe because my father's aunt had her obituary.

Irish sport pages. Among the self deprecating Irish American jokes that is the best. Having seen people do it and starting to do it myself.

"Irish amnesia" is a very close second.

 

This letter hit the nail squarely on the head:

I understand the desire for The Times to put a spit-shined PR spin on the recent decimation of its Sports section vis-à-vis the removal of game recaps, standings, box scores and TV listings — a.k.a. the very purpose and life’s blood of any Sports section — but please don’t patronize your print readership. These changes aren’t being made because you think we have some burning desire to read a “daily sports magazine” or because your print customers aren’t reading those features. They’re being made because financial considerations have conspired to move the paper’s print deadline to mid-afternoon. If you expect people to continue to turn to The Times for news, you at least owe your last remaining print customers the truth.

Jessica Morgan
Pasadena

 

The LA Times sports section is suffering from multiple catastrophes, none of which would be improved if TJ Simers were back on the payroll.

 

think of how fucked the department would be with him, his crappy attitude, his 1978 worldview of 'legacy media' and his dead-weight salary still on board.