Michael Ramirez Out at L.A. Times



It looks like Michael Ramirez, an L.A. Times editorial cartoonist staffer since 1997, will not make into the new year in the paper's refigured Op-Ed section. While Ramirez is better known in conservative circles than he is to the general public -- I think if you asked cartoon fans, even, many more would be familiar with the man Ramirez replaced on staff, Paul Conrad -- this seems to me a pretty big deal. I don't know if the severity or dependability of Ramirez' political positions played a role, but it looks like he thinks so; further, it really says something about the state of the business that a paper the size of the Times would opt to streamline by dropping a staff position. Of course, if I remember correctly, the Times has spent maybe the last five years going through a brutal realignment in all facets of operation.
 
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