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The John Kobylt Show

The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/23)

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Guss comes on the show to talk about the layoffs at the LA Times today. A pursuit suspect has essentially vanished after no showing his court date. Morgan Stewart comes on the show to talk about a settlement that LAUSD has agreed to pay out to victims of child sex abuse from a teacher. An update on the Aiden Leos trial.

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0:00.0

KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the I Heart Radio app.

0:06.2

We're on the radio from 1 until 4 after 4 o'clock.

0:09.1

Go to John Cobalt show On Demand.

0:11.9

And you could listen to whatever you missed on the podcast.

0:16.0

And if you're just joining us, I would listen to that last half hour we just did with Steve Garvey talking about coming off the debate with those three whack jobs that the Democrats that's running for the Democrats.

0:29.4

Tell me he doesn't sound like a normal person.

0:32.0

Don't we need some normal people running for office again instead of these screaming lunatics with their weirdo

0:40.2

ideologies. I don't know. Give him a listen. To me, he sounds like we need more of these people.

0:51.1

The LA Times, what a disaster. We've been telling you about it for several days now.

0:56.7

About two weeks or so ago, the executive editor, Kevin Marita, resigned.

1:02.7

Yesterday, the managing editor, Sarah Yassine, resigned.

1:06.6

Another top editor, Shannie Hilton, resigned.

1:10.6

The Sunshyang family is sick of blowing money.

1:14.4

They've spent a billion dollars and got nothing for it.

1:18.9

Today they laid off 115 of their writers and editors, which is a huge chunk of the newsroom.

1:26.0

The newsroom 25 years ago was 1,200 employees, writers and editors, which is a huge chunk of the newsroom. The newsroom 25 years ago was 1,200 employees, writers and editors.

1:31.1

Most recently, it was down to 500.

1:34.1

And now it's down to less than 400.

1:36.7

We're going to talk with Daniel Gus from the Gus Report, independent journalist,

1:40.3

who's been on our show many times because he always seems to know what's going on at the inside

1:47.2

of the LA Times. Daniel, how are you?

1:50.6

Hey, John. Thanks for having me back. And congratulations on going solo with your show.

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