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The Michael Berry Show

AM Show Hr 3 | The Death Of Newspapers

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

It's that time.

0:05.0

lock and load.

0:08.0

The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

0:11.0

The Michael Vary Show is on the air. Oh, yeah. Last week there was an announcement that the Los Angeles Times was laying off 115

0:59.3

people. The LA Times was bought by a billionaire whose fortunes have fallen a bit of late.

1:09.0

He's not on food stamps, but the drain of the LA Times, he put his daughter in charge of it.

1:18.0

And she's quite the activist, and she's been fighting with the people who work there and most everybody else because

1:27.9

she's a spoiled little brat.

1:31.6

But the layoffs have occasioned the writers who basically were the theater kids when you were growing up.

1:42.0

They've all taken to social media because they're all on social media.

1:49.1

And making it seem like they're pinned in a foxhole and the Germans are

1:55.6

peppering their bunker with bullets and there's no chance they'll get out.

2:01.6

You got laid off. It happens. It happens to most people in the course of their lives.

2:11.6

But what's interesting about this is, it's part of a bigger trend. Sports Illustrated has laid off all of their staff.

2:20.0

After two years ago putting a fat woman in a bikini and a year ago for the swimsuit

2:28.3

issue putting a dude, causing self a woman. So they're both brave and bankrupt. And it goes on and on. Washington Post has laid

2:41.1

people off. There's one after the other after the other.

2:44.3

And it raises a very interesting question because there are changes happening.

2:52.2

For those of you ready to give up hope, there are changes happening.

2:53.0

For those of you ready to give up hope, there are dramatic changes happening in this country.

3:00.8

It just happened very slowly.

3:03.4

In some of them you may see posted as bad news, and it's not.

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