Not this blog … the LA Times blogs.<\/p>\n
I’ve said for a while that it will be easier for newspapers to learn to blog than for bloggers to learn to be publishers. Note that that doesn’t cover the cost-structure overhang that is threatening media companies today, which is what’s going to grind them as institutions for the next few years.<\/p>\n
So the LA Times has hired local blog wild man Tony Pierce<\/a> to run their blog presence. I’m trying to decide on an over\/under for his tenure there, but can say with some cofidence it’ll be short.<\/p>\n Now that’s not because he and I butted heads when he laid out some bullshit about Pajamas Media<\/a>. It’s not because he was just quoted as saying<\/a><\/p>\n Huffington Post showed up out of nowhere when no one asked for another political blog and is now getting more hits than Drudge mostly because they are serious about politics and they’re echoing what regular Americans actually believe.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n …that’ll fit him right in with the Times folks.<\/p>\n It’s because he’s batshit crazy.<\/p>\n But I say that like it’s a bad thing. Maybe not, eh? We’ll see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LA Times hires Tony Pierce. Hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}