Archive for the 'Los Angeles Times' Category
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 by Insider
Dear Tina Daunt (columnist of the Los Angeles Times):
David Geffen did not buy the Los Angeles Times. He is not your boss. You do not have to do his bidding nor kiss his ass. Yes he is a powerful, vindictive individual used to getting his own way but the press is supposed to be immune […]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 by Insider
What do you do if you are an LA Times staff writer and you get caught sending out the above image to your bosses at the LA Times via a posting to your Facebook friends?
If you are LA Times’ David Sarno then you concoct the following story and try to shift the focus away […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by Insider
The Winners
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Rathergate.com: For a website with the URL Rathergate.com, this is like winning the Powerball lottery.
Mark Cuban: His hiring of Rather for his fledging HD network has been a high-definition bust. Cuban hoped that Rather would have PR value, something that has not been the case at least until now.
Conservative bloggers: Even though […]
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Posted in Los Angeles Times, Media, Big Thoughts | 4 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007 by Insider
In a lengthy story on the “longevity gap” between whites and blacks, the Los Angeles Times noted the difficulty in pinpointing the causes for the differences between the life expectancies of whites and blacks in California. The article was written in response to the recent release of a study called “Death in the Golden State” […]
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007 by Insider
Funny how life works. The LA Times is suffering from a significant revenue decline. One of their columnists, Patrick Goldstein, writes about it and the piece is promptly killed. However it magically appears over at LA Observed where it will probably be one of their biggest stories of the year. The irony is fascinating. The […]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007 by Insider
After spending the last few years shamelessly fawning over Second Life (including this recent puff piece), the LA Times has finally ceased its lightweight regurgitation of Second Life press releases and published an article that is actually critical (!) of the much-hyped virtual world.
Four years after Second Life debuted, some marketers are second-guessing the money […]
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 by Insider
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Update: Mirthala’s image makeover moves her from not to hot.
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Mirthala Salinas: “Mayor Tony’s Hot Tamale“
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa confirmed the identity of the woman with whom he’s been cheating on his wife. She’s Mirthala Salinas and she’s not bad looking. Then again so was Villaraigosa’s wife, Corina, pictured below.
Corina Villaraigosa, jilted!
While Mirthala has her […]
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Posted in Los Angeles Times, California Schemin', Media | 15 Comments »
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 by Insider
From LA Observed:
“Former School Me blogger and Current editor Bob Sipchen is believed to be on the [buy-out] list and said to be headed for a post with the Sierra Club.”
Bob Sipchen was in the process of doing more than any single individual for reforming LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District). No disrespect for […]
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 by Insider
The Times they are a-changing…
Employing the ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” strategy against blogs, The Los Angeles Times published a Front Page story on Allison Stokke with photos.
Allison Stokke
It’s hard to imagine this happening prior to the Tribune takeover but in the midst of declining revenues, who can blame them? People aren’t exactly […]
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Posted in Pantheon of Greatness, SexY, Not SexIST, Los Angeles Times | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 by Insider
In today’s Business section, the Los Angeles Times had a technology article wondering if the Nintendo Wii could “prolong it’s winning streak” and whether it was “little more than a fad.” It’s okay, even admirable, for a newspaper to be skeptical even in the face of a runaway hit like the Wii that has sold […]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007 by Insider
Below is a Los Angeles Times Editorial. We’re running it in its entirety since it’s likely that we won’t see many more editorials coming out of the Times that interest us or a good chunk of their shrinking readership. For those of you not following the soap opera at the Times, the agenda-driven columnists […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007 by Insider
This is a real Los Angeles Times headline:
“Wi-Fi, strings attached, A wireless L.A. could prove to be a disconnect, leaving the poor and public spirit behind”
Barring San Francisco only a writer for the Times could position the reduction of the price of broadband to free to be harmful to poor people. Poor people, by definition, […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007 by Insider
An opinion piece by LAT columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan was given the headline “A Boomer’ Lament.”
However the electronic version of that same story located on LATIMES.com had this headline “Survivor’s guilt at 45
Looking back at the first generation to grow up without legal racial segregation.”
Why would the Times go to the effort of essentially branding […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 by Insider
Today’s Malibu fire (which burned 4 homes possibly including a home owned by Suzanne Somers) demonstrated the value of citizen journalism to a traditional media company like the LA Times. Along with the excellent photos by the Times staff photographer dispatched to the blaze, the Times website had reader-submitted photos of the fire as well.
The […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2006 by Insider
David Geffen’s name has been getting tossed around as a possible owner for the beleaguered Los Angeles Times. Geffen’s one qualifier for ownership is the fortune he’s amassed and the fact that he lives in the area. But using that logic why not Donald Sterling?
Anyone who has ever worked with Geffen, let alone been caught […]
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