Unnecessary marketing. Believe it or not, the University of California has a whopping $62 million marketing budget to convince students to apply to its nine prestigious campuses. Yet, the UC campuses are so full that they do not even have room to accept the tens of thousands of students they are already attracting. In 2003, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The normally reliable Ron Brownstein makes an (innocent?) error in today’s LA Times:
“But the initial Edison/Mitofsky National Election Pool exit poll had found that Jews preferred the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, over Bush by 74% to 25%. The Los Angeles Times exit poll had found an almost identical 74% to […]
Dan Gerstein, Sen. Joe Lieberman’s former communications director, in today’s WSJ (pay site):
“The Democratic elites have convinced themselves that they are taking a stand against cultural tyranny. That’s how some women have rationalized their indifference to the misogyny of several hip-hop artists. But the reality is that it is those who cry “Censorship!” the loudest […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting (here, but subscription required) that GM is pulling ad spending from the LA Times:
“In response to a series of articles about the auto maker, General Motors Corp. has pulled all of its advertising from Tribune Co.’s Los Angeles Times for the foreseeable future, GM said yesterday.
… In a Wednesday […]
Slate reports on what happens when the federal government has an urgent need for more Arabic speakers:
“So, by the end of last summer, it had taken 21 months simply to draw up a 19-page plan.
… In the three and a half years after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States built a […]
A federal jury found that Harvard did not discriminate when it failed to promote a librarian who often dressed in — well, a way that librarians don’t usually dress. Desiree Goodwin had been rejected for 16 promotions or transfers at the school; a supervisor had told her that she was “a joke” […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Ever wonder why the concession choices at LAX suck compared to other major airports? Why the fifth-largest airport in the world has worse traveller services than mid-market airports like Pittsburgh? The LA Times offers some clues in a report detailing how airport concessions were just extended without competitive bidding. It may have something to do […]
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