I strongly urge that, as a recovery tactic, the Tribune immediately cease publication of the LA Times. I have no idea whether this would improve the Tribune's financial standing. My thought is that it would help me to recover from the recent horror of somebody having started an unrequested Times subscription for me. (Yes, this really happened, and it was hard to get it stopped. Yuccchhh.)
That is probably the Times trying to prop up there circulation figures.