Schadenfreude special for all us LA Times haters. Their circ is down almost 10% and they are pretending all is OK by giving the papers away in hotels and calling it circulation. The only people who read it are old folks, women, and hard lefties.

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Times released a smaller national print edition this week in New York and Washington, D.C., abandoning a plan to switch its East Coast readers to electronic versions of the newspaper.

The revamped 24-page, black and white format measures 11-by-17 inches and excludes paid advertising, Times spokeswoman Martha Goldstein said. It is aimed at news makers and other influential readers, with a circulation of about 1,500 in Washington and a few hundred in New York, mostly free.

All they get is a stapled at the top white paper. Good, it couldn't happen to a better bunch of liars.