I had to double check which site I was at, those pages look remarkably similar to most made for AdSense fluff content sites. I wonder just how profitable those pages are.
Wow. I installed adblock only a short while ago, and I hadn't noticed how much it improves the browsing experience until you made me disable it out of curiosity too.
I know, it's awful. I almost didn't submit it because of that. I looked around for a print link, even though I hate it when people submit those here, because that was just so bad.
Shame on LA Times really. I'm most definitely not one to begrudge an institution their profits, but this just feels like a bad business decision to me.