LA Weekly Email: Ex-Writers Have “Chosen to Spread False Information Based on Their Own Assumptions”

Last Wednesday, Mara Shalhoup, former editor of the longtime Los Angeles alt-weekly LA Weekly, tweeted that almost all of the paper's editorial staffers had been laid off amid its sale to Semanal Media, a company reportedly created specifically for the purchase of LA Weekly. The new ownership was revealed to be comprised mostly of Republican donors, Koch-friendly libertarians, and a guy who ran an anti-union…

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