Kevin Roderick from LAObserved pointed this out:
"I happened to be reading back through the extensive Sam Zell archives here this morning and was reminded that Zell, after he took over Tribune, told all employees that there would be no more censoring of websites and that one of the guiding principles was question authority. Just saying"
"From the outset, the journalist instantly fell into a category of people who constitute one of my biggest pet peeves here: foreigners in Kabul wearing traditional Afghan clothes. 
Nine days ago we experienced a fire in the control panel for the chillers at the LA Times Olympic Facility, which raised the temperatures in the pressroom to unbearable levels. To make matters worse, many of the fans that are meant to distribute the air in the pressroom are non-functional.
I’m not certain how many subscribers have fled the Los Angeles Times over the fiasco yesterday, but the numbers will be revealed to the pressmen shortly as the amount of newspapers produced daily will most definitely decline deeply. And don’t forget, the people in charge of Operations were handsomely rewarded with fat bonuses, which they should return to the laid off workers immediately.
It came as no surprise to hear a crew was created early Friday morning to fire up the presses at the shuttered Orange County Los Angeles Times, which was met with cheers from my colleagues that would love to return to their old working place.
In my thirty-eight years working at the Los Angeles Times, last night was the very first time I wondered if we would deliver today’s edition to our readers. Yes it was that bad last night at the Olympic Production Facility.
The men and women of Operations at the Los Angeles Times were treated to some great tasting barbeque yesterday for their performance after the passing of John Wooden last Friday. The backup impacted the night shift and morning shift at the newspaper last weekend. But somehow our delivery agents stuffed the newspapers and delivered to our subscribers in a very timely manner, with newspaper deliveries an hour to two hours behind the regular delivery times.
The Los Angeles Times Orange County Production Facility, opened in 1968 to much fanfare, died on a quiet note early this morning with the printing of the LAT Extra edition.
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