Times Editorials returns to boredom
Last week the L.A. Times announced that Jim Newton was appointed Editorial Page Editor to replace ousted Andres Martinez. For those who indulge reading the Times, let alone the spooky editorials, it is a return to the bad old days.
For years the Times has tormented its readers with predictable pasty liberal editorials. This section was certainly the least read of the newspaper. That is until Andres Martinez, took over a couple of years ago. To the amazement of many. his editorials were funny, pithy and interesting. Previous editorials was like reading Pravda under Stalin. Always kowtowing to the Party Line. Always boring.
Martinez, who left under suspicious circumstances, excoriated Villaraigosa, supported Bush’s surge, and was a critical of democrats as he was of republicans. In a word, the editorials were unpredictable. That made reading them fun.
Sadly, tried and true PC Jim Newton has reverted to bad writing and boring but predictable lib-dem positions. His latest effort was lamenting the US Supreme Court’s decisionto reject a civil suit against IBM because one employee said something nasty thatanother employee heard. . Come on… Read More