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

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

Sizable paper always has its utilities.
 
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.
 
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poindexter said:
The idea, at least for me, is that I want to read what the LA Times writer had to say about the Angels or Rams game.
I've been a subscriber for 35 years. I was happy to read the pdf version online for the past couple of years. I didn't even want the dead tree but they set up the subscription so that its cheaper if you take the Saturday and Sunday paper. So it goes straight to the recycle bin, where I am sure at the facility they direct it to the landfill.

This "magazine" sports section is utter garbage. Nobody wants that crap. I just found out THIS MORNING that I can go to the Times site and read about the wild Angels game last night. They've done a pish poor job of emphasizing that.

I bookmarked the Times site. My guess is that I will still read the rest of the PDF Times in the morning, and then head to the online sports site.



The guy paying $1,000 a year in the letters to the editor is a fool.
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It's been all soccer with this "magazine style stuff. Just think what it would be if there were no women's World Cup. Agree, complete garbage. I ate up the LAT for many years as a kid and beyond. A destination stop for me back in the day. Now? Utter sadness.
 
WriteThinking said:
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
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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 forked the department would be with him, his crappy attitude, his 1978 worldview of 'legacy media' and his dead-weight salary still on board.
 
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