BECAUSE WHO NEEDS NEWS, ANYWAY: LA Times to cut 250 jobs, including 150 news jobs. Earlier discussion of newspapers’ economic travails is here.

Meanwhile, reader Joseph Beaulieu writes:

If only AP was as skeptical of the L.A. Times as it is of the Bush Administration …it wouldn’t have left this uncommented upon:

“The number one reason that people cancel the L.A. Times is, they tell us, they don’t have enough time to read the paper that we give them every day,” Stanton said. “We’re going to be more picky about the stories we choose to write long and a lot more picky about the ones we write shorter.”

Yeah, that’s it. People are complaining about too much news. They’re doing too good a job! That’s their problem!

UPDATE: The LAT’s appeal isn’t shrinking — it’s just becoming more selective!