Could the Los Angeles Times become a mouthpiece for Tea Party paranoids to crusade against progressive L.A.?
If the Koch Brothers buy our local paper and hand over the editorial board to conspiracy-minded conservative extremists, imagine headlines like these:
Campaign Launched for Compulsory Unionism
Labor Socialists Campaign to Seize Your Paycheck
Public Transit Extremists Want Car-Free Downtown
Would Ban Private Autos Monday through Friday
Hollywood Liberals Steer Hate-America Propaganda
Wealthy Malibu Leftists Fund Anti-USA Movement
A Homeless Shelter Next Door?
Advocates Target Middle-Class Neighborhoods
L.A.’s Public Schools Crusade Against God
The Gay Curriculum Takes Over the Classroom
Health Department’s War on Obesity
Will the County Outlaw Coke, Pepsi and 7-Up?
O.K., they’d be a bit more subtle. But the threat is no joke. Anti-Koch forces will be out in force in the L.A. Federation of Labor protest on May 14. How would a Koch-owned Times cover that demonstration?