The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side’s written by a human and the other side is generated by AI. The reality: Kind of a mess.
It was the first time many Americans saw Rupert Murdoch using his news outlets to advance his interests — and a lesson in how a media mogul’s outside financial ties can taint the editorial product.
Under new owner Alden Global Capital, there’s no plan for the future. There’s just revenue extraction for as long as a generation of older newspaper subscribers live to keep paying their bills.
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APA
Doctor, K. (2020, Jan. 24). Newsonomics: Here are 20 epiphanies for the news business of the 2020s. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 9, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/newsonomics-here-are-20-epiphanies-for-the-news-business-of-the-2020s/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: Here are 20 epiphanies for the news business of the 2020s." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 24, 2020. Accessed March 9, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/newsonomics-here-are-20-epiphanies-for-the-news-business-of-the-2020s/.
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