The United States faces a do-or-die game this morning at the World Cup, and Southern California’s newspaper of record offers local fans … a wire service preview.
Of course, the LAT also did this on Saturday before the Italy game. And then their staffer wrote an insipid piece seemingly lifted from quote sheets that ignored the […]

The Los Angeles Times’ Peter Wallsten on Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford, who hopes to become the first black Senator from the old Confederacy since Reconstruction:
Ford and his strategists have been laying plans should race — or the kinds of racial codes that marked other campaigns, including charges of being too liberal — emerge in the […]

The Los Angeles Times’ Grahame Jones apparently attended Saturday’s US World Cup game — the most important in four years — and he leads with … the pace?
The United States soccer team’s reputation, in tatters after a meek loss Monday to the Czech Republic, is again intact.
The Americans can still advance to the second round […]

500,000 people in the LA area watched the US - Czech Republic World Cup game on Monday. But for today’s follow-up versus Italy — a must-win for the U.S. — the Los Angeles Times gives its readers a wire service preview deep inside the sports section.
Admittedly, 3/4 of Monday’s viewers were tuned in […]

Why didn’t someone ask Philadelphia?
Two weeks ago the Los Angeles Times published Releasing Inmates Early Has a Costly Human Toll. The article described LA County’s early release program and the disastrous results of putting convicted criminals back on the street prior to serving their complete sentences.
As a direct result of the article and […]

“While some believe Studdard, Bice and Hicks are following in the footsteps of other performers from Alabama — Nat “King” Cole, Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, Lynyrd Skynyrd …” — Los Angeles Times
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s most famous song is about Alabama … but they’re from Jacksonville, Florida.

The Los Angeles Times’ Channel Island column reports this morning that KTLA (Channel 5) is blocking their employees from websites LA Observed and On The Record. The Times’ Scott Collins suspects he knows why:
The station has been involved in several ethical lapses over the years, the most recent involving a dining-room makeover for “Morning News” […]

Yesterday the Los Angeles Times ran a story (”A Job Americans Won’t Do, Even at $34 an Hour“) that featured information and quotes from a business owner described as “ambivalent on immigration reform.” This turns out to be a serious misrepresentation and the truth undermines the validity of the story–not that many people will believe […]

Patterico beat us to a post about the Los Angeles Times’ Channel Island columnn yesterday, where Scott Collins turned a piece about Fox News Channel’s declining ratings into extended sniping about the network.
Patterico rightly points out that if Collins is going to tar FNC as too partisan, stale, or unengaged, what about CNN, whose ratings […]

“We should have had our eye on the ball,” admits Insider
Whilst I was writing about the problem of excessive orgasms for some women, Senior Administration Official was cruising Craigslist with the keyword “breast”, and Chad was making really bad comment puns on the above, we missed yet another example of editorial bias with the LAT […]

The Los Angeles Times has disciplined sock-puppeteer columnist Michael Hiltzik.
For traditional media, his crime was pseudonymous posting. That was the gist of most of the published stories about the controversy, including the initial reports in his own paper. And that got wrapped up in LAT ethics policy (”We do not misrepresent ourselves and we do […]

Overwhelming support for Westly at polls means naught to Democratic Party insiders who throw support behind the organized labor pick. Once again the Dems consider their own voters to be dupes too easily manipulated by television ads, an assessment trumpeted by the Los Angeles Times.

This Democratic-voters-are-easily-manipulated attitude appears to be supported by the […]

LA Observed is reporting:

Editors at the Los Angeles Times have stripped Michael Hiltzik of his Golden State column in the Business section and suspended him as punishment for posting anonymous arguments on his blog and those of critics. He also loses the blog and will be reassigned to unspecified duties after his suspension, via a […]

The silence from the LAT camp on the status of Michael Hiltzik is deafening.

But that hasn’t’ stopped Independent Sources from learning the top ten excuses Hiltzik is considering:
1. “NoFAnOfCableCos” is a nickname not a pseudonym.
2. Like any good reporter, I will never divulge my anonymous pseudonyms.
3. “These are not the droids we’re looking for.”
4. Robert […]

…and Hiltzik is not alone in his breach, Patterico, LA Observed, Media Bistro, Independent Sources and 24,620 or so other blogs or blog postings have violated the published terms of service of the Los Angeles Times web site.
In fact, this very sentence you are reading violates Los Angeles Times web site policy which states:

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