Said Robert Thomson, CEO of The Post’s owner News Corp, quoted in "Start the presses! New York Post will expand to LA with launch of The California Post" (NY Post).
I like the illustration, featuring the Post's best claim to fame, Alexander Hamilton:
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As Rush Limbaugh & Roger Ailes jointly discovered, sometimes even in the bluest of blue places there's still a market for a mainstream center-right media. I wouldn't think LA would have a big market for that myself, at least among the elites, however it might, and I commend them for putting their money where their mouth is. Perhaps this is the Murdoch family making their William Randolf Hearst move.
Excellent! As a longtime Post reader, I look forward to this new local paper.
- Krumhorn
I think a lot of LA still has a red tint (in our parlance - though you could also say that a lot of LA has the OTHER red tint - the narcist one). Especially with regard to illegal immigration, there is among our friends and family there a strong sentiment of "No cutting the line!" and a harsher position on illegal immigrant deportation than my husband and I hold.
*Marxist
My comment block has returned to the irritating "you can't scroll to the middle of the comment, only the beginning or the end" thing where proofreading becomes effectively impossible. The thing that, I sometimes think, is designed to make me tighten my comments the heck up.
Quite a change from the rest of the dying medium.
In some ways, LA is NYC Jr.
The NYT tried publishing a California edition in 1962.
The chaos surrounding the 1964 pressmen's strike doomed the project as it doomed other NYC newspapers.
The beach dude looks more like Washington than Hamilton.
Totally bodacious fer' shure.
As a frustrated Los Angeles news consumer, I welcome this long overdue development. This will be a test of the First Amendment's continuing force in our state.
He should have drawn Hamilton with American Eagle jeans.
Everyone is parochial to a certain extent, even global community lefties. Having a California version of the post can help reach folks on the West Coast provided it covers a good smattering of 'local' issues and trends. Plus this is good timing for a venture like this. To me at least, it feels like we are just past an inflection point in the culture where the wokeness that dominated the culture for the past 10 to 15 years or so is receding. We are past peak woke, and probably have been for a year or two. Most standard woke responses I see feel dated to me. What the culture will become isn't set, so it is good that a right of center media outlet is at least throwing their hat in the ring to try and get their message out there. Even with the decline of many traditional media outlets and the rise of podcasts and other new media, the new media is still functionally downstream of primary media outlets. Primary media puts out a story and the new media reacts.
SF needs a shot of lorazepam - looking fwd.
The Post should do a right-leaning Spanish-language Cali paper. Or a bilingual edition aimed at working class legal Latinos. They would be rolling in it.
RR
JSM
Brilliant.
Through the Fire
"Shock and Calm" .... LA is ready to rise from the ashes.
sometimes even in the bluest of blue places there's still a market for a mainstream center-right media
…in Lake Tahoe with my Trump loving neighbors from California. Had to listen to a personal call from a southern red state Congress lady. I will attest this is the truth..
Nature abhors a vacuum. (Actually, it doesn't, but ignore that.)
Here's a self awareness test:
Go over controversies of the last 20 or so years. After the dust has settled, consider how the various media cover these and how has that coverage held up? Of course we carry our own biases into that, but try. And recall the Gell-Mann effect during the consideration.
Russia, Russia, Russia
Hunter's laptop
Don't say gay
Vaccine mandates
Good people on either side
Government and free speech
And a whole lot more. For me the NY Post is WAY more accurate than, say, the NYT.
YMMV
Competition is good. They can hardly do worse than the home grown SoCal snewzzzzz business.
One can assume nefarious acts by the old "all errors point in one direction". One can assume there are deaf, dumb and blind drones in cubicles on auto mode cranking out a report.
But, no matter where you fall on that spectrum SOMETHING is amiss. The corrections are massive - and frequent.
These numbers have a effect in politics. A much larger one on the economy.
Can't we, at least, agree there should be a close look at the process to see why the monthly corrections are so large?
I wouldn't think LA would have a big market for that myself...
Hmmm. There are a lot of center right people in California and SoCal specifically. Ranked choice voting and other Democrat "innovations" did a lot to marginalize Republicans but all my life we made up 40 to 50% of the vote, right up until about 1999-2004 or so when the vote rigging and harvesting began.
yes the Post for all it faults is leagues better than the Times
once upon a time Matt Welchand Ken Layne, were going to set up an alternative to the Dog Trainer, nothing much came of it,
Frankly every major broadsheet, from San Francisco to Boston are terrible, even in read states, the Sentinel (Tribune) and Herald (McClatchy) are horror shows,
Deep State Reformer - I live around LA. If you look at the state election county map - California is all red outside the cities. The problem is the cities is where the greatest population is. If you go inland it's all red. Even here in Los Angeles - Santa Monica, Studio City, the rich area are solid blue. But the suburbs are not so blue and "normals" live out in Santa Clarita and to a large extent in Ventura County. There are lots of normals. The problem is there are a lot more weirdos in the cities.
and the weirdos destroy the cities, through lockdowns, abolition of cash bail, legalization, basically mob rule,
The Post should do a right-leaning Spanish-language Cali paper. Or a bilingual edition aimed at working class legal Latinos. They would be rolling in it.
That ought to be a success in Miami or Texas, too. The Hispanics are stampeding away from the Democrats.
I just wonder, who's gonna buy it?
I subscribed to the Los Angeles Times for almost 50 years--I have the read the daily newspaper in the morning habit. The progressive stench on the "news" pages of the Times got so bad that I finally cancelled a year or two ago. The Los Angeles Daily News--the "other paper" is okay if a bit thin. I'm looking forward to subscribing to the new California Post, and I sure hope they have home delivery.
As a longtime Californian, I can attest that general circulation news media in the state are uniformly awful. Anything that can counteract the endless streams of garbage is welcome. As to "who's gonna buy it," I can't say, but there were 6,081,697 of us who voted for President Trump here last November. That could be a start . . .
I see that the homeless robbed poor George of his shirt. It's a jungle out there!
Oh, that's supposed to be Hamilton? *shrug*
The state of newspapers here in San Francisco is no better. The Chronicle mainly serves up articles from various wire services, and every local story is so pathetically progressive-focused that any out of the box idea is immediately dubbed heresy or, worse, “right-wing” (gasp!) The San Francisco Examiner is little better, dishing out warmed-over center/right leaning articles but still bends the knee to all of the City’s pet causes.
A recent newcomer, the SF Standard, is online only but is pretty good at getting the scoop on SF-specific issues (crime, the tech beat, City Hall politics) but I’m not sure it has a lot of saturation, even in this tech-centric city.
That's great they need a decent paper there. The LA times is the worst, so boring like Mickey Kaus says, they don't want to piss anyone off especially in Hollywood. So they run those "long, soul-draining thumbsuckers" that nobody reads.
Hamilton? Looks more like Biden to me.
When I arrived in San Francisco in the 1980s the newspaper environment was very sprightly, consistently fascinating, even if mostly left-wing. The Examiner was printing novels in the daily paper, and Hunter Thompson. Armisted Maupin was consistently ironic, making fun of the weirdness of modern social life - at least initially. Go read the first "Tales of the City". Even the Chronicle laughed at the silliness of the wild crookedness of the local and state government, much of it by Herb Caen, even if his approach was to play up the cuteness of the disingenuous rascals. By the 2000s that self-awareness was all gone.
CalPost should perform well in the City of Burnt Angles.
They could start a Las Vegas edition, the Hitching Post.
People still read newspapers? Since everything is online now each political site finds its audience. I don't see this doing anything. Conservatives in CA are already tuned into conservative outlets. And those who prefer a liberal slant on the news won't opt for what the Post is selling.
People still read newspapers?
There are a lot of birdcages out there that need a liner.
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