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 [...]
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 [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)One of our favorite blogs here at Independent Sources is the econoblog Marginal Revolution. Thus it was with great pleasure that we came across this Los Angeles Times front page business section story about them and its primary writer Tyler Cowen.
Cowen describes his fans as “high IQ, possibly nerdy, looking for kicks or for something [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Los Angeles dedicated an entire article on Roman Polanski’s inclusion in “Rush Hour 3″ and barely mentions his legal problems in the United States (saying only “famous fugitive” after “film icon”). Times writer Jay Fernandez makes light of the fact that people may not remember Polanski (sarcastically calling him “some guy named Polanski” [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I like the Los Angeles Times. I’ve subscribed since I moved to Southern California twenty years ago, and I even pay about $240 / year for seven day delivery instead of the $99 rate I hear that I can get. I live in a zip code where — unlike parts of the west side — [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Sometimes I think the whole “old media vs. new media” is overblown. Then I read things like Al Martinez (LA Times columnist) giving his description of the blogosphere:
Since then I have learned that, with some notable exceptions, blogs are largely the habitat of unemployed writers, enraged misanthropes, retired teachers, aging journalists and people who normally [...]
At a time when the paper is laying off staff left and right, it seems odd for the Times to have a “newly created job of executive director/Communications.” Wouldn’t it just have been cheaper to acknowledge the fact that pretty much everyone at the paper reads LA Observed and just put Roderick on the CC [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The minor skirmish over the Los Angeles Times’ characterization of “Path to 9/11″ screenwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh took an amusing turn today when the LAT defended itself in the Wall Street Journal’s letters page.
On September 18, Nowrasteh wrote in the WSJ that
The L.A. Times, for one, characterized me by race, religion, ethnicity, country-of-origin and political leanings [...]
“Bush Goes Public With Terror Study” headlines the Los Angeles Times this morning.
Times staffer Greg Miller spends a considerable portion of his 1,457 word piece quoting from the newly declassified portions of a National Intelligence Estimate.
But does the Times provide a way for readers to see that document for itself? After all, it’s 1,203 [...]
That’s the takeaway from a Los Angeles Times article, “Study Says Individual Insurance Too Costly,” that alerts us to this alarming fact:
Individual insurance also is less affordable than employer-sponsored coverage, the study found. Two out of five people with individual coverage spent 5% or more of their income on premiums, compared with one out of [...]
The truth according to the Los Angeles Times:
“But (ABC) may have at least inadvertently politicized the Sept. 11 film by hiring writer-producer Cyrus Nowrasteh, a politically conservative Iranian American Muslim.”
– Los Angeles Times staffers Scott Collins and Tina Daunt in the September 9th piece “ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story — Almost“
The truth according [...]
In exposing the numerous payments to former USC star Reggie Bush and showing how he and his family were on the take for much of the latter part of Bush’s career at USC, Yahoo Sports shows that it is far more than an aggregater of AP stories.
As papers such as the Los Angeles Times dwindle [...]
Mike Antonovich has killed our subsidiary site Antonovich.blogspot.com.
In early July we read in Steve Lopez’s LA Times column that LA County Supervisor Mike Antonovich sends out phonebook-sized mailings of his favorite news items to several hundred people … an activity paid for by LA County taxpayers. We suggested he get a blog … and we [...]
In today’s Los Angeles Times, you’ll see the following headline:
“Angelelides Proposes Tax Cuts”
and just below it this text:
“He hopes to reinvigorate his run for governor with the $1.4-billion proposal, which would mostly benefit middle-class residents.”
The “tax cut” is the dominant story on page 1 of the California Section.
Hoo-ray. In this state of far-too-high taxes, maybe [...]
Left hand …
“By most measures, Democratic Rep. Henry A. Waxman, 66, of Los Angeles ought to be one of the most irrelevant elected officials in Washington. He’s been in Washington since 1974, but his party is in the minority. He is an unapologetic liberal in a Capitol dominated by uncompromising conservatives.”
- Los Angles Times, Monday, [...]
