Amid declining sales revenue and lack of readership interest in the LA TIMES, the Southern California daily has struggled to stay fiscally healthy in recent months.To combat the growing problem - heads have not only rolled - but there have been massive cuts in the editorial department which seriously undermine the paper's ability to compete in the ever-changing print and multi-media landscape.
On Monday, the new publisher - Eddy Hartenstein - stood before stalwart staffers with the specific intent of assuring the disgruntled, the disillusioned - and the plain old tired and weary - that with his hand at the helm the paper's woes may turn around.
He's basing that assumption on the fact that he was a local boy who knows the marketplace.
That may be true.
But, he obviously knows nothing about office politics.
After all - in his speech to staff members yesterday - he asserted bold-faced that he was not going to let Sam Zell (Tribune Publishing ) micro-manage his new star.
Ooops!
Hartenstein made his first big mistake.
Never cast aspersions on your "boss" - not in public - at least!
I give him twelve months.
Nice knowin' 'ya, Eddy!
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