Alleged 'ex-managing editor of the Los Angeles Times' goes viral on TikTok after being spotted in $183,000 Porsche

Greg P. | 6:35 PM on March 05, 2021

You know all the times print journos complain about low wages? Yeah. About that. . .

There’s a video going viral from TikTok of a man and a woman in a $183,000 Porsche and the driver is asked what he does for a living. He responds that he’s a journalist and the woman next to him clarifies that he’s an “ex-managing editor of the LA Times.” Have a watch:

I need to become ex-managing editor of @latimes pic.twitter.com/hk8bIsbUWl

— Sam Ro ? (@SamRo) March 5, 2021

We haven’t seen the driver officially identified yet, but Los Angeles Times journos are weighing in. Kelcie Pegher notes that “there’s a reason they used to call the LAT the velvet coffin”:

There’s a reason they used to call the LAT the velvet coffin ???

— Kelcie Pegher (@klcpegher) March 5, 2021

And Hector Becerra joked that he owns “a Lambo”:

I own a Lambo. pic.twitter.com/HJoGT2lXho

— Hector Becerra (@hbecerraLATimes) March 5, 2021

And Seema Mehta wondered if maybe the woman was the one with the cash in the relationship:

I don’t know that this is the case, but in the interest of fairness and not making assumptions, let’s not discount the idea that his wife could make a ton of money.

— Seema (@LATSeema) March 5, 2021

But, we’re being told, this isn’t how most journos live (well, duh):

Dear everyone who is not a journalist:

this is not how it works for most of us. overwhelming, we live paycheck to paycheck. living like this is (often but not always) possible when you're a top exec sucking the $$ out of newspapers and refusing to compensate workers fairly. https://t.co/hQF4BgP8Dl

— Erin B. Logan (@erinblogan) March 5, 2021