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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 10/23/2006 4:44:37 PM
Title: Andersen's "silly opinions"
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From TIM RUTTEN, Los Angeles Times: As Kurt Andersen says, he never has lived in Los Angeles, which helps to explain some -- though not all --of his silly opinions about the Los Angeles Times. No need to argue over those. When he strays toward the facts, though, he just gets things wrong. He writes, for example: "And here's a crucial data point: a huge majority of the New York Times' readers are college graduates, compared with 19 percent of the L.A. Times' readers. In other words: Your readers are not like you." That would be a crucial point if it were true, which it isn't. Forty-two percent of the Los Angeles Times' daily readers are college graduates, half of them with post-graduate degrees. Their median income is $73,187. Free advice offered from afar and in ignorance is worth about what you pay for it. [Permalink]

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