Follow LA Observed on Twitter here
Rip Rense didn't toil in the media for 25 years without learning how to work the news hacks like me. Yesterday, he slipped word of his book signing, and I did an item. Today comes his weekly column, which I can't ignore for two reasons. One, it begins with the John Carroll memo on L.A. Times liberal bias that L.A. Observed was the first to publish. Then he whistles a fastball at the chin of LAT staff writer Roger Vincent, who interviewed developer Alan Casden about his desire to buy the Dodgers, build a downtown stadium and tear down Dodger Stadium to erect housing. I found the story fine, but Rense says:
Wow! For a newswriter, Vincent turns out to be one hell of a publicist.