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Today some LA Times staffers decided to tell owner Sam Zell what they think of his stewardship -- with a three-story banner. On the LA Times building.
Which takes some kind of balls.
The website at the bottom of the sign -- tellzell.com -- has been chronicling the paper's downsizing from the inside. This summer 250 jobs will be eliminated, 150 from the newsroom (that's editorial to you and me). Tell Zell's proprietor -- the pseudonymous Ink Stained Retch -- is on staff at the paper. For the moment, at least.
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zell must have downsized the internet as the link doesnt work
Ya aint no Rupert Murdoch Zell. Rupert made his initial fortune publishing super market tabloids. Newspapers and broadcasting came later when he had already made his fortune.
Slink on back to Chicago like a good boy and leave this newpaperin' stuff folks who actually know what they're doin'.