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Good Lord, the LA Times sports page looks like garbage today

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by poindexter, Oct 20, 2011.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Owned one for about a week. Weak single compared to the Dodgers story, which is bigger for the Times than the Series, for sure. Most days there's another chapter of "As the Dodgers turn," I'll use the Times over AP.
     
  2. JPsT

    JPsT Member

    Also wondering this. He had something run Monday, so I'm guessing he's still there.
     
  3. sportsnut

    sportsnut Member

    Yes, Sam Farmer is still at the Times and he is doing a pretty good job but I agree with everyone that said the Times Sports section is not what it used to be and please correct me if I am wrong. But, the Los Angeles Times has not been very Los Angeles for quite a while as they want to go more New York Times and be the newspaper of the word instead of the newspaper for the city of Los Angeles. That, also mean's they could have written about the Minnesota stadium development and how it will affect LA.

    ESPNLA.com does a better job at covering Los Angeles then the newspaper that thinks it is the newspaper of record for this city. Also, again just my two cents but it is not worth picking up for $1 dollar a day anymore and the sports section has been garbage for a while, just look at it as it has 4-8 pages of car ads.
     
  4. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    The L.A. Times has, among big sections, a surprising number of not-great/bad writers. Erskine's already been called out, so I don't feel bad naming him. But let's just say, there are at least 10 newspaper sports sections I can name that I prefer reading on a regular basis to the Times, which at one time was one of the top two or three, if it wasn't the very best.
     
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    My bad on Farmer being the national NFL guy.
     
  6. jambalaya

    jambalaya Member

    Seeing the old San Diego edition of the Times was one reason I got into this business in the first place. Nightengale, Buster and Simers all writing from a bureau! That deserves a Good Lord!
     
  7. printdust

    printdust New Member

    pdf link please.
     
  8. CNY

    CNY Member

    The Times posts the current day's cover on its site.
    http://www.latimes.com/includes/sectionfronts/C1.pdf
     
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