Opinion: While you’ve still got the L.A. Times to kick around...

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Whatever else you may say about the L.A. Times and its personnel (and you’ve already said plenty), I think it’s fair to say we’re willing to take our lumps in public. Patrick Frey and Marc Cooper’s Dust-Up on the future of the Times is winding up. Yesterday they hashed out the differences between ailing old media companies and never-better-served news consumers. Today, they joined forces for a beatdown of The Times so gleeful even I was tempted to circle the wagons in classic dinosaur media fashion. I resisted that temptation, so go and read it, and check out the whole exchange.

Tomorrow, Frey and Cooper will be addressing the possibility that maybe there’s more life left in the old paper than people are letting on. I hope you’ll tune in, and go on to explore the vast range of topics we’ve covered — from porn to steroids to dogs to outer space (but no porn with spacedogs on steroids; we’re a family newspaper) — in the no-holds-barred arena of the L.A. Times Dust-Up. Thanks for reading and writing.