Another incremental newspaper self-mutilation, this one just announced by the LA Times, which is 
killing its stand-alone Food, Health and Home sections in print and merging them into a “lifestyle” section on Saturday to be called—drum roll please—”Saturday.” Now for the way Times president Kathy Thomson breaks the news to staffers in a memo. Notice the lede buried in the bottom sentence, beneath the happy talk:
On March 10, we will debut a new weekly section called Saturday for our print edition. Saturday is a visual feast designed to reflect Southern California’s unique lifestyle. It will combine the best of our health, food and home sections on a day perfectly suited to living life to its fullest. Our individual Health, Food and Home sections will remain available online, but will no longer be separately published in print.
Add: The LA Times also announces it’s throwing up a pay wall. Read the LAT story; Thomson’s memo is at LA Observed.
