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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.ocweekly.com/news/five-of-the-new-la-weekly-owners-are-past-republican-donors-8611140</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">&nbsp;DEC 5, 4:00P.M.;<b style="background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;</b><span style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the recent LA Times article "<a href="http://beta.latimes.com/business/la-fi-la-weekly-20171204-story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">LA Weekly's New Era Starts With Backlash; Some Advertisers Step Back</a>", the new operations manager and part-owner of LA Weekly</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Brian Calle tried distancing himself from his conservative past by saying he didn't share the principles & values of The Claremont Institute (a conservative think tank) which he used to work for.</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"On economic issues I'm just right of center," Calle told the LA Times. "On social issues I'm progressive. On immigration issues I'm very, very progressive."</font></p><div class="city-color-border related rel-stories" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; width: 655px; min-width: 180px; box-shadow: none; float: left; clear: both; position: relative; border-width: 1px 0px !important; border-style: solid !important; border-color: rgb(200, 200, 200) !important; border-image: initial !important;"><h2 class="city-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; position: absolute; top: -10px; left: 0px; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED STORIES</font></h2><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style-type: none; width: 625px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style-type: disc;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/news/uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky-no-longer-investing-in-semanal-llc-la-weeklys-new-owners-8619787" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 17px; outline: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Erwin Chemerinsky Is No Longer Investing In Semanal Media Group, LA Weekly's New Owner</font></a></h3></li></ul></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fascinating, considering the Orange County Registrar of Voters informed the Weekly yesterday Calle is registered as a Republican despite his attempts to make himself sound more like a leftist. Are you going to call that an "absolute falsehood" too Calle?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ORIGINAL POST, DEC 1, 6:33P.M.;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Journalists and readers have been asking questions regarding who the hell is running&nbsp;</span><i style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LA Weekly</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;ever since the newspaper's new owners, Semanal LLC, gutted a majority of its editorial staff Wednesday. After spending the day digging into the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/introducing-the-new-owners-of-la-weekly-8913902" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">list of owners named in a cold-hearted article</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;by new&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/news/brian-calle-la-weeklys-new-honcho-is-an-oc-weekly-scariest-person-8565478" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">LA Weekly</i>&nbsp;head honcho Brian Calle</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, so far&nbsp;</span><i style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Weekly</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;has found that five of the seven investors named by Calle have donated to the Republican Party at least once in the past. In fact</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Michael Mugel and Paul Makarechian have donated huge sums to GOP candidates and PACs.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's what we know so far:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Makarechian</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, named as a "boutique hotel developer" by Calle, is the CEO of Makar Properties LLC and the founder/chairmen of the National Board for Gen Next. According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, Makarechian is registered as a Republican. He's been a donor to the Republican Party since 1997,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> donating thousands to committees for candidates including Pete Wilson, George W. Bush Jr., Ed Royce, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Jeff Flake and Mitch McConnell, among others. Gen Next's PAC "Gen Equity Federal Pac" is a contributor to several Republican candidates and in May gave $10,700 to the McCarthy Victory Fund, a committee for Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy of California's 23rd District.</span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="inline-video" data-vmg-ad="Teads" data-vmg-track="2nd ad" data-vmg-tracked="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael "Mike" Mugel</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;is the CEO of Red Mountain Group Inc. of Santa Ana. According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, Mugel is registered as a Republican. Mugel has been a donor to the Republican Party since 2010, donating thousands to committees for candidates such as Mitt Romney, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Gallagher and none other than President Donald J.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Trump.* </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His donations are&nbsp;</span><i style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">yuuuge</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">—he donated </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">$25,000 to the committee Trump Victory in 2016* and $100,000 to the Conservative, Authentic, Responsive Leadership for You and America&nbsp;committee&nbsp;in 2015.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*Given that in his lame-ass letter to readers, Calle insisted that the new owners of<i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;LA Weekly</i>&nbsp;didn't include "Lord Voldemort" or "some Trumpista," it's rather informative to note here that indeed, one of the paper's new owners, Mike Mugel, is in fact, a Trumpista.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">
Brian Calle i</b>s already well-known for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/news/brian-calle-la-weeklys-new-honcho-is-an-oc-weekly-scariest-person-8565478" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">his Libertarian-slanted editorials</a>. According to the OC Registrar of Voters, Calle is registered as a Republican. In 2006, he donated $1,550 to the&nbsp;Republican candidate committee&nbsp;Brian Bilbray for Congress and $5,000 to the Generation Next Federal PAC. Then, in 2007, Calle donated $3,000 to the Lincoln Club of Orange County Federal PAC (long a supporter of Republican candidates) and another $2,000 to the Generation Next Federal&nbsp;PAC. David Welch,</b>&nbsp;the LA-based,&nbsp;medical-cannabis&nbsp;attorney of DR Welch Attorneys at Law, was previously revealed<a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/news/the-new-owner-of-la-weekly-is-a-pot-lawyer-8516563" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">&nbsp;to be a part of Semanal Media LLC</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">OC Weekly</i>'s Mary Carreon.&nbsp;In 2014, he donated $2,000 to the Committee to Re-Elect Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and in 2015 and again in September, he donated $2,000 and $700, respectively, to Rohrabacher for Congress.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew "Andy" Bequer</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;is the "Southern California-based investor" at least formerly of&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Q.And.S-Investments-LLC-714-685-0185" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">Q&S Investments LLC</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="http://npino.com/drug-rehab/1093266546-adr-management-llc/" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">ADR Management LLC</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. According to the OC Registrar of Voters, Bequer is registered as a Republican. Bequer donated $2,500 to Marco Rubio for President in 2016 and a look at his Facebook reveals he's the member of the Facebook group </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"CUBANS FOR DONALD TRUMP</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" as&nbsp;</span><a href="http://spike-friedman.com/" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">Spike Friedman</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;originally&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/spikefriedman/status/936494229609594880" target="blank" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">revealed on Twitter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; max-width: 655px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ties of Kevin Xu have yet to be investigated and the only ties</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Steve Mehr (CEO of WebShark360) appears to have is a November 5. 2017 Instagram post where he said he's "giving early support" to Lt. Governor of California Gavin Newsom's run for Governor of California (Newsom is a Democrat). According to the OC Registrar of Voters, Mehr has no party preference. As far as Erwin Chemerinsky<b style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;(</b>the dean of UC Berkeley's Law School who praised Calle and said he plans to invest</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) is concerned, his donation history stretches Democrat all the way back to 1996. So what the hell would a majority right-leaning ownership want with a historically left-leaning paper is a question yet to be answered. The&nbsp;</span><i style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weekly</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;will continue following this&nbsp;developing story</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/12/what-happened-to-la-weekly/547748/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wednesday, every editor and all but one writer at LA Weekly learned that they’d been fired. On Twitter, then-editor-in-chief Mara Shalhoup compared the mass layoffs at the storied alt-weekly to the <b>“Red Wedding” on “Game of Thrones.”</b></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div>Since then, controversy around the fate of the paper—and the future plans of its mystery-shrouded new ownership group—has only escalated. The political views of the new owners, an all-male klatch of largely Orange County-based investors, have sparked panic among Angelenos who suspect that the nearly-40-year-old publication’s days as a bastion of progressive news and opinion are over. A #BoycottLAWeekly campaign led by disgruntled ex-staffers has already prompted Amoeba Music, concert venues, and major restaurants to suspend advertising or pull out of an upcoming event. On Monday, a leaked internal email from LA Weekly’s sales director offered a glimpse of what appeared to be an end-of-days situation inside the paper’s offices: The suggested topics for an afternoon staff meeting included “Advertisers pulling,” “Why everyone saw this coming except you,” “Social Media—who’s [posting] and why, because this weekend was horrible and amateur,” and “Immediate future” among the issues to discuss.</div><div>
</div><div>The shock over Wednesday’s news was compounded by the fact that less than a month earlier, fellow Southern California news source LAist was abruptly shuttered by its billionaire owner (I was LAist’s editor-in-chief at the time of its closure). In cities across the country, other journalism outlets, both digital and print, are struggling to survive the industry-wide contraction dubbed the media apocalypse. For those who fear for the long-term health of local news during a politically contentious time, the Weekly turnover gives considerable pause.</div><div>
</div><div>So, who’s running the Weekly today? The man now in charge laughed when asked what his official title at the paper was. “I haven't even figured out how to unlock all the doors yet,” Brian Calle said over the phone on Monday afternoon.</div><div>
</div><div><b>A libertarian-leaning “free-market enthusiast” and former opinion editor of the Orange County Register, Calle said that he “might end up” as publisher, </b>but an interim stint as editor-in-chief wasn’t out of the question either.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The 37-year-old, who once described himself as a “cross between Ari Gold and Captain Jack Sparrow,</span>” is still commuting from Orange County, but he plans to move to Los Angeles in the next few weeks. And he wants the city’s residents to know that—despite all appearances—the Weekly is alive and well, and about to be better than ever.</div><div>
</div><div>At the time of the layoffs, it was still not entirely clear who even owned the paper. A month and a half earlier, Voice Media Group, the Weekly’s parent company, had announced the forthcoming sale of the paper to Semanal Media, a mysterious newly formed LLC. A few weeks later in early November,&nbsp; the Los Angeles Times reported that prominent<b> L.A. cannabis industry attorney David Welch was one of Semanal’s investors</b>. And Calle, the Times reported, had been “selected” by the mysterious investors to lead operations for the takeover.</div><div>
</div><div>The sale to Semanal Media officially closed on Wednesday, the same day as the layoffs. No one from Semanal was in the building on Wednesday during the Red Wedding, according to multiple former staffers. Further information about the investors wouldn’t be revealed until the end of the week.</div><div>
</div><div>The decimation of the paper’s staff at the hands of a then still-unknown entity provoked widespread outrage in the city and the wider journalism community, with the Society of Professional Journalists loudly calling on the people behind Semanal to reveal themselves.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The names of the other five men (beyond Calle and Welch) who had invested were finally revealed in a post on the Weekly’s site on Friday: Four of the five have businesses based in Orange County, and two have “donated extensively to Republican political campaigns,” according to the L.A. Times.</span></div><div>
</div><div>That Orange County connection set off some alarm bells: O.C. is a county over and a culture war away from L.A.; combined with Calle’s own politics, fears of a Trojan Horse-style conservative takeover of the historically progressive paper quickly proliferated on social media, with several former Weekly staffers leading the inquiry in lengthy Twitter threads. “Are they going to weaponize the newspaper?” asked April Wolfe, the paper’s former lead film critic and a leader of the call for a boycott.</div><div>
</div><div>“I want to help save the LA Weekly. That, honest to God, has been the focus.”</div><div>
</div><div>Jay Levin, who founded the Weekly in a rented Sunset Boulevard bungalow in 1978, famously proclaimed that “the truth is left-wing.” The paper is no longer as far left as it once was, but liberal politics remain central to the alt-weekly’s brand, which has been burnished by many journalistic honors. LA Weekly has won more awards than any other outlet in the country from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia; in 2007, it became the first paper in the country to receive a Pulitzer Prize for restaurant criticism. Business boomed through the 1990s, when, according to Los Angeles Magazine, “the Weekly was the dominant alternative paper in a huge market,” and “it wasn't hard to turn a handsome profit.”</div><div>
</div><div>But the Weekly purchased by Semanal Media was a shadow of its former self, in terms of size and influence. Once fat with ads for tanning salons and astrologers, the paper’s ever-thinning print edition has a current circulation of approximately 60,000—about a quarter of what it was in 2000, though it remained profitable. And at the time it was put up for sale, digital readership was strong and growing, according to former editor Shalhoup. The Weekly’s media kit claims 3.4 million monthly unique visitors. “The publication was certainly not losing audience,” she said. “Things could change from month to month or week to week, but the overall trend was up,”</div><div>
</div><div>Voice Media Group’s original for-sale pitch stated that they were seeking a buyer “with an appreciation for the Weekly’s long history as a progressive icon in America’s second-largest market.” And Calle has repeatedly insisted that he has no intention of changing the paper’s editorial slant. “I think it’s going to be even more progressive,” Calle told CityLab. “I have no intention, nor would I have ever agreed to be part of something, that was going to change the political bent. I think one of the dirty little secrets about Brian Calle is that I’m incredibly progressive socially.”</div><div>
</div><div>The new Weekly regime’s controversy-laden debut doesn’t signal an ideological takeover, Calle insisted: It was just badly executed: “If we’re as nefarious and calculated as some people on social media suggest, the rollout would have been far more strategic and far more geared toward some insidious purpose.”</div><div>
</div><div>Calle also pushes back at the charges of secrecy that dominated much of the local criticism of the sale. “<b>David [Welch</b>] was announced pretty early on,” he said, “I was announced shortly thereafter.”</div><div>
</div><div>While perhaps technically true, this description is not entirely accurate: Welch wasn’t initially named as an investor; his name was merely listed on the LLC application filed the same day the forthcoming sale was first announced in October. No other information was released at the time, leading many to speculate that the prominent cannabis attorney was representing some mystery marijuana company in the deal. Welch’s role as an investor in Semanal wouldn’t be disclosed for another three weeks, when it was confirmed in the same November 9 L.A. Times article that also announced Calle’s forthcoming position at the helm of the Weekly. That article, which was based on an interview with Calle, framed Calle’s role not as financial backer or chess-board maneuverer, but rather as the guy hired by the still-mysterious investors to manage editorial operations for them. In fact, Welch and Calle are the two main investors, and Calle appears to be running the show.</div><div>
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</div><div>And as for the rest of the O.C. gang? Calle maintains that he and Welch truly didn’t know who the final list of investors would be until the deal closed last week. So they weren’t being intentionally secretive, they just didn’t know what they were doing, or where the money was coming from. “The only reason we didn't go out of the gate saying these are the people who are going to be the [new] LA Weekly is because that was a list that was in flux so much so that there was no consistency until the actual, final closing,” Calle said. “Literally days before.” (A spokesperson for <b>Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, </b>the mergers and acquisition firm handling the sale for Voice Media Group, confirmed that sale closed on Wednesday, November 29, but was unable to provide any further detail.)</div><div>
</div><div>Nevertheless, once revealed, the new Weekly team wasted little time enraging readers further. On Friday afternoon, Steve Mehr, one of the investors, appeared to suggest in an L.A. Times interview that Los Angeles—home to much of the nation’s film, television, and music industries—was something of a cultural backwater. Mehr, who lives in the tony Orange County beach community of Dana Point, told the Times that Los Angeles didn’t “have a cultural scene on par with New York and San Francisco.”...</div><div>...</div><div>weed $</div><div>...what exactly do these characters aim to do with the city’s famed, if slightly fallen, alt-weekly? “I really can’t imagine why you would even buy the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">LA Weekly</em>&nbsp;if it wasn't for at least a fraction of the people that produced the work,” Shalhoup, a 17-year veteran of the alt-weekly business, said. “We’re all equally puzzled as to what value these buyers saw in this publication.”</div><div class="ad-box-wrapper" data-pos="box" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section class="s-article__section o-small-container" id="article-section-7" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To hear Calle tell it, the motivation was largely altruistic. “It was just people who literally were like, ‘This is cool, I want to help save the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">LA Weekly</em>.’ That, honest to God, has been the focus,” Calle said.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> But while white-hat activist investors certainly have a place in the current journalism landscape, conservative Orange County businessmen seem an unlikely fit for the role.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another answer—or at least potential factor? The investors smelled weed money. California’s legalization of recreational marijuana goes into effect on January 1, 2018<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</i>&nbsp;According to internal estimates, management had posited that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> legalization could bring in up to $2 million in additional advertising revenue for the struggling paper during the first year alone.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There was hope in the building and beyond that there would be additional revenue,” Shalhoup said. “That was also based on the fact that our sister publication in Denver saw quite a bit of influx of new revenue.” Recreational marijuana, which Colorado voted to legalize in 2012, has been life-sustaining for Denver’s&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Westword,&nbsp;</i>one of the few alt-weeklies in VMG’s collection that the company&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">hasn’t&nbsp;</i>been trying to sell off. Other alt-weeklies nationally are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/one-alt-weekly-dies-and-another-emerges/546035/" style="box-sizing: inherit;">also hoping to cash in on cannabis</a>&nbsp;ad dollars.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Westword&nbsp;</em>is probably the most profitable alternative weekly in the country, and it’s due in large part to marijuana/cannabis advertising,” Calle said. “Most certainly from a short-term perspective, in terms of bringing in revenues from 2018, we are going to focus on getting a bump from cannabis,” he continued. “Obviously David [Welch] is very active in [the cannabis] space, so he’s excited about that prospect too.”</font></p></section></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weekly’s staff was gutted Wednesday as Voice Media Group completed its sale of the alternative newsweekly to a newly created company, Semanal Media.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nine of the 13 members of the editorial staff lost their jobs, including all the top editors and all but one of the staff writers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“To have such deep, devastating cuts — it’s beyond anything we could have ever fathomed,” said Mara Shalhoup, who until Wednesday was the editor of LA Weekly. Publisher Matt Cooperstein lost his job too, as did some staffers on the business and marketing teams, she said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What will happen next is unclear.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shalhoup said the print edition due out Thursday is already finished, and her team had prepared to hand off additional articles that are in various states of completion. But if there is to be a print edition next week or a steady stream of stories online, any new staffers will need to figure out a lot of things very quickly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I would find it very hard to know what to do in the next few days, given the amount of institutional knowledge that’s walking out the door,” Shalhoup said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brian Calle, who will be managing LA Weekly’s operations for Semanal, confirmed that the sale closed Wednesday but declined to provide any details about what to expect, saying he wanted to talk to his staff first. This month, he spoke enthusiastically about the publication and laid out his hopes to turn it into “the cultural center” of the city.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Semanal investor and Chief Executive David Welch, a Los Angeles attorney known for representing members of the cannabis industry, declined to comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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In California, advertisers are pulling their business with the award-winning alternative&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">newspaper LA Weekly</span>, after it was bought by a shadowy group of male&nbsp;...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="57" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5oJHy9PrXAhUDYiYKHQ9qAZUQFQg5KAMwAw"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/12/what-happened-to-la-weekly/547748/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Curious Sale of the 'LA Weekly' Saga, Explained - CityLab</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv _SWb" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;">https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/12/what-happened-to-la-weekly/547748/</cite></font><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=la+weekly+editor+fire+gop+funder&oq=la+weekly+editor+fire+gop+funder&aqs=chrome..69i57.18604j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b3" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5oJHy9PrXAhUDYiYKHQ9qAZUQ7B0IOzAD" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a></font><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5oJHy9PrXAhUDYiYKHQ9qAZUQqR8IPDAD" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></font></font></font><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OV7aVNuVhjcJ:https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/12/what-happened-to-la-weekly/547748/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li></ol></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OV7aVNuVhjcJ:https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/12/what-happened-to-la-weekly/547748/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="">1 day ago -&nbsp;</span>Immediately, most of the staff was&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">fired</span>. ... Last Wednesday, every&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">editor</span>&nbsp;and all but one writer at&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">LA Weekly</span>&nbsp;learned that they'd been&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">fired</span>. ... revealed in a post on the Weekly's site on Friday: Four of the five have businesses based in Orange County, and two have “donated extensively to<span style="font-weight: bold;">Republican</span>&nbsp;political&nbsp;...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="63" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5oJHy9PrXAhUDYiYKHQ9qAZUQFQg_KAQwBA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/740482/secret-group-investors-bought-la-weekly-fired-most-writers-editors" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A secret group of investors bought LA Weekly, then fired most of its ...</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv _SWb" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;">theweek.com/.../secret-group-investors-bought-la-weekly-fired-most-writers-editors</cite></font><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=la+weekly+editor+fire+gop+funder&oq=la+weekly+editor+fire+gop+funder&aqs=chrome..69i57.18604j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b4" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5oJHy9PrXAhUDYiYKHQ9qAZUQ7B0IQTAE" style="border-radius: 0px; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li></ol></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DYRv7EonGx0J:theweek.com/speedreads/740482/secret-group-investors-bought-la-weekly-fired-most-writers-editors+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="">Nov 30, 2017 -&nbsp;</span>On Wednesday, a group called Semanal Media finished its purchase of Los Angeles alt-weekly&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">newspaper LA Weekly</span>&nbsp;— then promptly laid off nine of the 13 members of the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">editorial</span>&nbsp;staff, including all five editors and all but one staff writer. "We were expecting there to be some pain with the sale," tweeted&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="Tib" style=""><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DYRv7EonGx0J:theweek.com/speedreads/740482/secret-group-investors-bought-la-weekly-fired-most-writers-editors+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing:&nbsp;<s>gop</s>&nbsp;‎<s>funder</s></font></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="70" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5oJHy9PrXAhUDYiYKHQ9qAZUQFQhGKAUwBQ"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://psmag.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-la-weekly-played-itself" style="cursor: pointer; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li></ol></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YyLbjwbXrKUJ:https://psmag.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-la-weekly-played-itself+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="">2 days ago -&nbsp;</span>In the span of a few hours, Semanal&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">fired</span>&nbsp;75 percent of its full-time&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">editorial</span>&nbsp;staff, including all five editors, the publisher, two staff news writers, the film critic, .... in&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">LA Weekly</span>, donated $25,000 last year to the Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee from 2016 for Trump and other&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Republican</span>&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="Tib" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YyLbjwbXrKUJ:https://psmag.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-la-weekly-played-itself+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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Twenty of the estimated 40 staff members not part of the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">editorial</span>&nbsp;team were also dismissed. EaterLA noted the ... 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