Times open about staff cutbacks

Regarding “L.A. Times plans job cuts,” April 21:

It is remarkable how openly and in what detail you reported the development, because many media companies publish only good news about themselves.

As a German freelance journalist who is active in the German journalists association, I follow media trends on the other side of the Atlantic (in this case, the Pacific as well). We may soon face similar challenges here.

I do hope that good, fair and accurate journalism survives in these rocky times for American newspapers and wish you all the best.

ULRICH HOTTELET

Berlin

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Although it is sad to learn that The Times will cut as many as 150 jobs, might I suggest that one of those be the person who devised the bizarre upside-down reverse Sunday Opinion and Book Review sections?

SKIP PEDIGO

Huntington Beach