MediaNews’ Los Angeles counterpart to Bay Area News Group, or BANG, is—in case you didn’t 
know—LANG, for Los Angeles News Group. And LANG has started the same character eradication campaign among its individual newspapers in the L.A. area that BANG already began here. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed describes the play: consolidation of executives across newspaper boundaries.
To wit: The editor of the Daily News (in the San Fernando Valley) will be executive editor of the (Torrance) Daily Breeze and the (Long Beach) Press-Telegram as well. Plus other top-pruning. Sound familiar?
