Protesters to rally outside AIG in downtown L.A.

Demonstrators plan to rally outside the AIG building today in downtown Los Angeles to protest the giant insurer's decision to pay $165 million in bonuses to key employees. American International Group Inc. recently received the first part of $180 billion in federal bailout funds.

"We're going to be down there with whoever we can get," said Ian Thompson of the Los Angeles chapter of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) coalition. "We're going to be expressing anger and outrage about the new bonuses that were announced, that will be given to the very same folks who helped cause the financial meltdown."

The protest is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. near the intersection of 8th and Figueroa streets. The group also  will help lead an anti-war protest Saturday at noon to mark the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq. A march is set to start near Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street and continue to Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.

-- Ari B. Bloomekatz

Comments

[LogicalUS]

Can't wait for the LA Times to follow the Seattle Pravda to the dustbin of history.

So a purposed rally of a few hundred next week by leftist nuts is headline news to their friends at the LA Times who publish a advertisement for the rally BUT the protest of 15K people in Fullerton to the theft by the Obama administration of three generation of American tax contributions is NOT newsworthy.

Good riddance to your garbage.

[Bob in Los Angeles]

I'm not arguing with the cause(s), but why is a group that already has two seemingly un-related complaints now protesting executive pay bonuses?

[SJ]

What hypocritical hacks! No wonder newspapers are dying. Not reporting the Fullerton Tea Party that had 15,000 in attendance was a massive oversight on your hack newspaper's part and then reporting on these planned events??!! Time to start reporting ALL the news and not just the selective crap you choose. Let's hope that the "readers" wise up and stop buying your hack paper and you go under. It's not even worth wrapping fish in!

[Will Naught]

No coverage for the 15000 strongTea Party in Fullerton,but, you are all over this before it even takes place? And you wonder why newspapers are going the way of the dodo bird.

[Alex]

Are these AIG people on drugs? I mean this Liddy guy could pass for an imbecile. They have to pay because of contractual agreements!!! Did we have a contractual agreement to save these CROOKS???

[pitbullstew]

mmm..are they wearing the tri-color of the french revolution?

[Joe Taxpayer (my real name!)]

I don't know if this is already the case or not, I haven't had a chance to attend a TP yet, but at EVERY tea party event there should be a prominent booth set up to facilitate cancellation of the local rag.

At the next So Cal event there needs to be a huge sign, CANCEL YOUR LA TIMES SUBSCRIPTION HERE! with a table set up manned by volunteers with phones ready to go. Maybe the papers would think about covering it if there were a couple of thousand cancellations all at once with every caller citing the non-coverage of these rallies as the final straw!

Think of the image! It would be awesome to see 200 people lined up to cancel. I run into conservatives all the time that still have subscriptions to these rags. Use a little peer-pressure / mob mentality to push them over the line into doing what the know is right.

[Luc]

Oh... so you can write about a rally that has yet to happen, but you can't find the time to cover a rally that had over 15,000 to protest against tax increase in Fullerton. I guess there no media bias here. No wonder I cancelled my subscription to your paper.

[Gary]

So the Times works for ACORN by announcing their protest, but refuses to report a 15,000 person Tea Party?

Please keep it up so that you will go out of business faster.

Thanks.

[RetFireman]

Being as how this is moderated, the chance this will be allowed are slim, but I just had to state my disgust with the Times and their blatant Liberal bias.

When 15,000 people show up to protest President Obama's trillion dollar Socializing of America, not one pepp out of the Times. Not one picture, not one article...NOTHING. When asked, the editor states they do not find "stunts" such as that protest "newsworthy". 15,000 people the Times considers a "stunt". Yet any time they hear a rumor that there will be an anti-war rally, or anytime the American Communist and Socialist Party backed A.N.S.W.E.R. or La Raza or any number of Left-Wing group decides to have some sort of anti-American get together, it ends up on the front page. In this case, they are advertising something FOR them before it even happened.

You want to know why newspapers across the nation are folding? This is your answer. People are tired of the Liberal bias and slant of the newspaper industry and are turning more and more to the Internet, where they can actually get the news, not some sort of propaganda piece.

Good job L.A. Times. Enjoy your falling numbers and subscriptions. The "Tea Party" movement is growing every day. People are not going to stand by and let Obama, Reid and Pelosi turn this country into some sort of Neo-Socialist state, and you will not be able to ignore it for very long.

[sfsean]

Nice to know that I don't have to go to ANSWER's web site to find out where the next protest is going to be. I can always go to their shill-the LA Times!

The funny thing is I rarely agree with Malkin and I think the AIG mgmt are a bunch of criminals. In this case, she's right, you didn't report the anti-pork rally at all. No wonder you're going out of business. Good riddance.

[Last Rites]

Helloooooooooo??? You guys still here?

[Fitzgerald]

Hey you guys, it is time for you to wake up and be counted. Stop being one of the many liberal papers that only reports the things that is shoving your paper out the door. I am sure that you are very aware of the 15,000 that were in Fullerton to protest the Obama crap. With all due respect, please don't shed any tears when your paper disappears.

[Tom Lorenz]

It's not the business of governement to bail any of these companies. Nor is it a constitutional duty of any of the hypocrite overpaid, trillion dollar tax wasting congressmen to have any say about executive benefits. Protests agains AIG are misdirected by the misinformed. Their efforts should be directed toward and protesting against congress who gave them our money. Congressional members are the enablers of this mess. Market forces need to be allowed to be brought to bear against any incompetent business or executive and this effective tool cost taxpayers nothing. How bout cutting congressional pay until the national budget is balanced!
Where's the LA Times reporting about the 15k Fullterton anti-tax protest????

[JR]

LA Times? I thought it was defunct. Rigor mortis has apparently not yet set in, so a few spasms of drivel can be expected as the gases escape its decaying organs.

But it sure does stink up the place in the meantime.

ALERT: Hold your noses and hope there won't be a new round of bailouts proposed for by the Obama regime -- this time for the Obamamedia complex.

Headlines to fear:

"Dead news organ LA Times now officially adopted and fully funded by Obamamedia as the rebranded 'Fed's Uber Commissar Kollective Union' rag -- BO's gift to America."

[Cory]

Why do you have worthless posts like this but no information on the 15 thousand people who turned out for the anti-administration's Socialist policies "tea party" in Fullerton?!? This is why we shout "liberal bias!

[NumberNinetyNine]

Can you expand the story to include how the AIG bonuses fall under the causes for which ANSWER is named?

Also, I'm having trouble finding the story about the "Tea-Party" and I thought that since those seem to be related, maybe you can post a link here?

Thanks!

[Jack Peterson]

So you call the anti-Obama plan rallies stunts? (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-talkradio15-2009mar15,0,39114.story). And you are shills for A.N.S.W.E.R.S.? Sorry but 15,000 protesters of any kind should be worth reporting. Oh, I forgot. They didn't pay you off to get the story did they? As you are receiving Obama unemployment checks remember that your crummy and obvious liberal bias has been the reason for your paper's demise.

[Dennis D]

Selective Coverage . No Wonder America is rejecting your Propaganda Rag.

[Gene the Sad]

This is a job for A.N.S.W.E.R. because everone knows that the wasted money being paid to AIG really belongs to the opressed races as reperations from the white power structure. Twenty people at an A.N.S.W.E.R. rally represents about 100 times more IQ points than 5,000 Fulerton Pallin fans, thus we are 100 time more important than you.
Long live LA times speaking the truth to power.

[Dennis D]

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

[John Galt]

Just wanted to agree with the other comments about how this protest that hasn't even happened yet gets covered by your paper but a rally of 15000 people is ignored. I second the idea of cancellation booths for the local paper at each tea party protest. See you at the next tea party. Oh, by the way, if you guys are into doing stories about protests that haven't happened yet you should look into what is planned for April 15.

[skysoljr]

I've been scouring your paper and have yet to find ANY coverage of the 15,000+ people that showed up for the TeaParty in Fullerton. What gives? I'm sure it was just an oversight. Right? I mean, there couldn't be any bias here, could there? What with those leftist nuts complaining about AIG, there just HAS to be at least 1 reporter angry about real issues like taxes and such. Not 1? Really? Knock me over with a feather.
sarc/off

[Jojo]

Why is Ramsey Clark's organization future rally covered by the LATimes, but the anti-tax tea parties that had 15,000 protesters ignored?

[Cindy Wilkerson]

Your refusal to cover the 15,000 people gathering to protest the Obama taxes via the tea party protest but eagerness to cover a protest that hasn't happened is the reason you will probably and hopefully go out of business with the rest of the propaganda media. News is news whether you like it or not! Next time your whining over low circulation, remember today!