Three Police Officers Shot in Los Angeles and It Doesn't Make the Front Page of the L.A. Times (but Look at What Does)

PJ Media ^ | 03/10/2023 | Jack Dunphy

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Newspapers, the ones that used to appear in your driveway every morning, the ones you could pick up and turn the pages and read without the aid of an electronic device, those relics of a bygone age, they may be dying, but the print edition of any paper is still a reliable barometer of its editors’ priorities. The front page is the most prized real estate, with reporters vying to have their stories appear in that coveted space on A-1. Just as one can get a good idea of what is important to the editors by what runs on the front page, what doesn’t appear there is equally revealing, if not more so.

Wednesday evening, radio and television stations in Los Angeles gave extensive coverage to an incident in which three LAPD officers were shot while trying to arrest a wanted felon. On some local television stations, regular programming was interrupted to carry live coverage as a small army of police officers and sheriff’s deputies converged on a Lincoln Heights neighborhood where, after several hours, a SWAT team found the suspect dead.

The three officers were reported to be in stable condition, an outcome for which we can be grateful, but the fact that the officers survived doesn’t lessen the magnitude of the story, which held the attention of L.A.’s electronic media through the evening and into the next day. So I was curious to see how the story would be covered in the Los Angeles Times, which, as I have pointed out many times before (here and here, for two recent examples), is proudly and sometimes dishonestly hostile to law enforcement in general and the LAPD in particular.

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And the Times did indeed sink to my expectations. On the paper’s front page Thursday morning, the only reference to the shooting was at the bottom-left corner, an invitation to turn to the second section for the story.

[Blue Highway]

Trash paper

[US_MilitaryRules]

I heard yesterday from a friend who knows a longshoreman here the LA area that said 2 or 3 longshoreman died recently snorting coke that was laced with fentanyl. Not a peep in the news.

[al baby]

Above the fold is the most valuable

[al baby]

The afternoon Herald examiner was not too bad

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[telescope115]

Priorities, priorities…..

[joma89]

Only leftists and useful idiots buy newspapers.

[ridesthemiles]

I moved to LA in Feb 1964.

Paper was a joke then-—never got better

[Fiji Hill]

The LA Times endorsed Goldstein in ‘64 but quickly went downhill afterwards