"LA Weekly is being sold to Semanal Media, a mysterious new company," reported the L.A. Times; other news outlets offered much the same, noting that none of the newly-created Semanal's investment partners would make their names known.
As LA Weekly's more than three million online readers—the largest of any alternative weekly in the country—read about renters being summarily evicted simply for asking about increased rents, Semanal's new operations manager, Brian Calle, fired nine of the magazine's 13 staff, including all of its editors and its publisher.
"We were expecting there to be some pain with the sale of @LAWeekly," wrote editor-in-chief Mara Shalhoup online. "But we weren't expecting the Red Wedding."
[...] Two days later, in his first official message to readers, Mr. Calle spun the move as indicative of the news media's broader struggles in the digital age. LA Weekly, he said, had been on a "declining trajectory" and the new owners wanted to help make the publication "relevant" again.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @08:44AM (3 children)
Amerrr-ikans, lucky if they have a rudimentary knowledge of English. The concept of other languages escapes them. When they hear people speaking Spanish, they think it is some kind of weird code, and that the Spanish speakers must be talking about them and making fun of them, and that they must be Muslins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:13AM (2 children)
...despite the fact that a bunch of USAian cities, and states, and rivers, and landmarks, yada,yada,yada carry Spanish names.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:44AM (1 child)
Almost every major city in California, as well as the state capital.
It is funny how people forget about how California and parts of the southwest are actual military conquests against Mexico.
Also: Why we're supposed to remember the Alamo.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @05:40PM
To rent a car?