Both of the top two newspapers owned by the now-privately held Tribune Co., the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times had their publishers resign yesterday. Both men were facing the Sam Zell demand to precipitously cut staff and volume from the papers. Some learned speculation hints that the LAT’s Hiller departure might not have been as voluntary as the paper “reported” it to be.

Lipinski has been in the top post at Tribune Co.’s flagship paper for seven years. Her departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs.
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[David] Hiller, who stepped down after 21 months at the helm of Tribune Co.’s largest paper, was the paper’s third publisher since Tribune bought it in 2000.

The paper plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 in the print and online news departments, and reduce its weekly page count by 15 percent. Some sections will be eliminated and stories are to run shorter.

To those of us that still slug through the dead-tree version of the LA Times, just because I guess, it’s really no surprise. The Lefty bias is palpable and unending. The reporting often sloppy. The retractions often never made. Last night I missed O’Reilly’s take down of the LAT for allowing hate comments about Tony Snow on its moderated web site comment area, but Pattrico sure didn’t.

I stopped watching Bill O’Reilly a long time ago, but he’s good for one thing: righteously laying into someone with passion and anger. When there are goons who laugh about people’s deaths — whether they are Ted Rall, or commenters at the L.A. Times web site (posting with the permission of comment moderators) — you need someone with O’Reilly’s attitude to take them to task.

Well done.

Here’s the video:

Patrick posts about the vicious LAT user comments are here and here with this caveat should you decide to go there, “But steel yourself before you do. It’s really awful.”

I just went there — he’s sure not lying! It’s worse than awful . . . Lefties — their hate knows no bounds, or boundaries.

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