I Hope the Kochs Buy the Times
L.A. Is Terrified Its Main Paper Will Be Owned By Rightwing Zealots. I’m Not Bothered—and Here’s Why.
As you read this, I am surely reading e-mails from my former Los Angeles Times colleagues angry about the following sentence:
I’m rooting for the Koch brothers to buy the L.A. Times.
For the record, I am no fan of Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who own various polluting companies and have spent shockingly large amounts of money in very secretive ways on behalf of libertarian and conservative causes. And I love the Times, which is not only my hometown paper but also a member of my family. My mother …
