More layoffs at the Los Angeles Times

Apologies if I missed this elsewhere. More layoffs at the L.A. Times including at least two in sports according to LA Observed:

"Pete Thomas covered outdoors recreation — fishing, surfing, adventure and stuff like that — for a good chunk of his 30 years at the Los Angeles Times. He posted yesterday at Facebook that he's among the layoffs. Sports staffer Mark Medina sent the newsroom a note saying he was leaving."

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/12/more_names_of_la_times_de.php

 

Seems like Medina just joined the sports staff, no?

 

Way to eat your young. Stay classy, LA.

Good luck to Pete and Mark in whatever their future might bring.

 

Mark was a METPro intern. That will make a difference for him.

And, the way this is written makes it sound like he has another gig, or other plans. I'm sure he'll be fine.

 

I hope so.

More and more, whenever these layoff threads include people saying "Well . . .he/she will land on their feet!" or "Lot of good people there. I hope they all land on their feet." My response is "Where? HOW?"

Journalists are running out of safe landing places. Many of the non-journalism ones are getting filled with people.

 

Agreed. The entire "land on your feet" scenario is wishful thinking. Sadly, I know very few people who have been laid off and recovered to find good jobs. Or even decent jobs.

 

Mile, I can go further back than that and at a few more places. It's just fucked up and I don't see it improving. As long as papers can continue to publish with less personnel, they are going to make cuts.
Sort of like the way radio is doing away with disc jockey and all-news normats are becoming canned operations and TVfolk are requiring guys to take pictures edit and write their own stories.