NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Time for the L.A. Times to Die [updated with Times announcement URL]
Time for the L.A. Times to Die http://j.mp/hI9f1d (This message in Google Buzz) - - - I've lived in L.A. my entire life. The Los Angeles Times has been part of my life since I learned how to read -- in fact I remember learning to read by sounding out words in Times articles. I have long urged people to support the L.A. Times through subscriptions and other means. I now withdraw that support. In recent years, this once great metropolitan newspaper has been decimated by its recent masters at Tribune, but now comes word that the Times is eating the Facebook poison apple -- and switching their Technology Blog over to the stupendously invasive Facebook Commenting system -- in the name of "uniformity" says the Times. Oh and by the way, all previous comments on the Technology Blog will vanish with this change: http://j.mp/holfLg (L.A. Times). In "New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous 'Comment Nazis' ( http://j.mp/hQ36EA [Lauren's Blog] ) I explored why the Facebook Comment system should be so strongly condemned. The adoption by the Times of this system is the last straw. A once leading stalwart of journalism has sold its soul to the devil as far as I'm concerned. It's time to let the L.A. Times die. Otis Chandler must be spinning -- or perhaps crying -- in his grave. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com