Posted
4/10/2009 05:34:00 PM
by Douglas
Newspapers continue to spiral away from relevance, this time in
Los Angeles.An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move.
The advertisement, for the NBC television series "Southland," appeared on page one of the Times on Thursday. Although it was labelled "advertisement," the ad resembled a news story complete with a bold-type headline.
Fake story/ad on the front page? You're done, no better than the ValuPak that clogs the postal services before it falls in the land fill.