Dennis Prager Show - The Collapse of Newspapers Aired: 2024-10-26 Duration: 06:30 === Who Keeps LA Times Functioning? (05:57) === [00:00:00] The owner of the Los Angeles Times told the Los Angeles Times not to endorse anybody. [00:00:09] Los Angeles Times is a left-wing publication. [00:00:13] That's all it is. [00:00:14] It's nothing more than that. [00:00:16] It was once. [00:00:18] I wrote for it for many years. [00:00:22] They actually... [00:00:23] Huh? [00:00:25] Well, that was before my time when it was conservative, but it was conservative, yeah. [00:00:32] But it's become a left-wing ragsheet. [00:00:37] And the amazing thing is, people on the left don't think that way. [00:00:41] They think, great, we have turned a newspaper into a left-wing voice. [00:00:46] That's it. [00:00:47] We represent the Democratic Party and it's left-wing. [00:00:52] So the owner, for reasons I have no inkling with regard to, said, don't endorse any candidate. [00:00:58] Of course they were going to endorse Kamala Harris. [00:01:01] I mean, all the news items, the news pieces, and the commentaries, opinion pieces, are all pro-Kamala Harris, pro-Democrat. [00:01:15] So they're resigning. [00:01:17] The head of the editorial page resigned, and now two other... [00:01:21] Two other editors have resigned. [00:01:25] It's so fascinating. [00:01:28] If I were they, I would not resign. [00:01:32] I mean, what difference does it make whom the LA Times endorses? [00:01:37] Its readers are left-wing, and everything it stands for is left-wing. [00:01:43] Is there anybody who would read an LA Times editorial endorsement? [00:01:51] Because the columnists are all endorsing her. [00:01:54] So who reads their editorials anyway? [00:01:57] Not many people. [00:01:58] And by the way, I get the LA Times, just for the record, because I feel I'm obligated to know what the left says. [00:02:07] But let's say I were running a conservative newspaper, and the owner said, Don't endorse any presidential candidate. [00:02:19] You think I'd resign? [00:02:20] No, what I would say is, okay, we won't have a... [00:02:23] So we'll just keep having editorials, or excuse me, columns written on behalf of the Republicans and on our news items. [00:02:33] No, no, no, if I were conservative running a newspaper. [00:02:37] I don't understand why they resigned. [00:02:40] Oh, we want to have independent control of the paper. [00:02:44] Okay, it sounds great, but there is an owner. [00:02:48] If it weren't for the owner, you wouldn't be in business. [00:02:51] Nobody buys the paper. [00:02:52] That's the joke. [00:02:53] These people should be bringing candy to this owner. [00:02:58] He keeps a piece of crap in business. [00:03:00] It has virtually no advertising. [00:03:04] Look up its circulation. [00:03:06] I'm so curious what its circulation is. [00:03:08] No young people read it. [00:03:11] Thanks to this owner, it's so fascinating. [00:03:14] The hubris of leftists is beyond belief. [00:03:19] I'm glad they quit. [00:03:21] Now they don't have a job. [00:03:23] They don't deserve to have a job. [00:03:25] They've ruined the newspaper. [00:03:27] But from their perspective, all they should have vis-a-vis the owner is gratitude. [00:03:33] It's not the free market that keeps the Los Angeles Times functioning or the Washington Post functioning. [00:03:40] It's Jeff Bezos who keeps the Washington Post functioning. [00:03:45] And it's this Chinese-American, I think, is that right? [00:03:48] Taiwanese-American, is that what he is? [00:03:51] Who keeps the Los Angeles Times functioning. [00:03:54] So we told them not to write an endorsement. [00:03:57] Like, okay, fine. [00:03:59] All right, big deal. [00:04:01] It's so fascinating. [00:04:04] Good, I'm happy. [00:04:06] They don't deserve jobs. [00:04:07] These people have only done harm. [00:04:09] They've ruined the newspaper. [00:04:11] But it's... [00:04:14] In gratitude, thy name is progressivism. [00:04:21] Wow. [00:04:24] In a message posted on X... On Wednesday afternoon, this is from the Hollywood Reporter. [00:04:30] By the way, did they ever put out a piece on PragerU? [00:04:34] They came and interviewed me. [00:04:39] Times owner Sun Xiang said he had offered the editorial board the chance to write a factual analysis of all the positive and negative policies by each candidate during their tenures at the White House and how these policies affected the nation. [00:04:57] That wasn't enough. [00:04:58] Like they would write an objective analysis. [00:05:01] He had also asked the editorial board to present their vision for how policies outlined during the candidates' campaigns might play out in the next four years if they were elected. [00:05:12] That's a little more significant. [00:05:15] In this way, with this clear and nonpartisan information, side by side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being president for the next four years, he wrote. [00:05:28] Okay, that's hilarious. [00:05:32] I have no idea why the man sustains the LA Times. [00:05:39] But as I said, these people who quit because he wanted them to write an analysis instead of an endorsement, do you understand what they're saying? === Jobs Gone Wrong (00:47) === [00:05:52] We have contempt for you who made our jobs possible. [00:06:01] Okay. [00:06:03] I wonder what... [00:06:04] I really would love to know where they'll end up. [00:06:07] Will they end up, I don't know, at the Washington Post, at the Chicago Tribune, at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, or any other left-wing newspaper? [00:06:18] Where will they end up? [00:06:19] There are no jobs anymore for these people. [00:06:22] Exactly! [00:06:23] There are no jobs. [00:06:24] That was why I asked it. [00:06:25] It's not like it's a... [00:06:27] A bull market for job seekers.