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Updated all weekend. Last: Sunday 11:45 p.m.
Dana Gioia, the poet, critic and head of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be the guest on KCRW's "The Politics of Culture" on Tuesday, August 26. It airs at 2:30 p.m. A native Angeleno, Gioia was a vice president of General Foods when he left the corporate world to write fulltime (bio). He is co-editor with Scott Timberg of the new anthology, The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles.
Sunday at 1 p.m. on Deadline L.A., the weekly media review on KPFK, host Barbara Osborn talks with the director of OT: Our Town, the new documentary on a staging of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" in Compton.
Bad to worse at King/Drew: Medical center to lose surgeons (LAT)
Bernard Parks: Won't cooperate with Rampart probe (LAT)
Amy Alkon, the Advice Goddess, is looking for "horrible, humiliating breakup stories" from readers. She says the idea is inspired by Carrie getting dumped via Post-It note on "Sex and the City." "Ask the Advice Goddess," based in Santa Monica, runs in more than 100 newspapers.
Life cycle of a news story, a cartoon from The Lemon.net. Link via CalPundit, who is now listing links for high profile newspaper-based bloggers such as Dan Weintraub and the Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn. The Trib? Since it's in the family, I wonder if the LAT could be next...
LAT Poll: Cruz leads Arnold with Republicans split, with instant analysis from the Bee's Dan Weintraub.
Prints the Chaff is a new blog just for newspaper copy editors from Tom Mangan, who originated the Seven Questions Project.
Los Angeles author and journalist Deanne Stillman has sold a book about the history of wild horses in the American West to Houghton Mifflin. (CaliforniaAuthors.com)
This week's Los Angeles Business Journal runs an excerpt from 24 Days, the book on Enron's demise by two reporters attached to the Wall Street Journal L.A. bureau, Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller.
Former UCLA coach John Wooden visits his wife's grave on the same day every month then goes home to his Tarzana condo and writes her a love letter, 18 years after she passed, Dennis McCarthy writes in his Daily News column.
of LA Observed
"SNEER WHEN YOU SAY 'JOURNALIST'" was a three hanky piece from the left about how the good name of journalism is being besmirched by the likes of Bill O'Reilly. The outer fringe of journalism has always existed and the article even compares Matt Drudge to Walter Winchell. What drove the stake into the heart of journalistic credibility is the left wing slant that is ignored in this article and furiously denied in many others. Several years ago the LA Times ran a single article on how there was a long term bias at the paper against Pro Life groups labelling them "Anti-Choice" and calling the Pro Abortion groups Pro Choice. They regretted the relabelling but stood fast in their support of abortion. Trying to find pro gun articles is equally fruitless in the left wing big three of the NY Times, Washington Post or LA Times. After Proposition 187 the anti illegal alien bill passed a state wide referendum the LA Times missed no opportunity to denigrate it but part of the reasom that Gray Davis is going away is that he did not uphold the will of the people and appeal the lower court ruling that struck it down.
The treatment that Bill Clinton had at the hands of the media after committing a felony while in office is in stark contrast to the abuse that Nixon received the only difference being that Republican senators were willing to break ranks to impeach Nixon while not a single Democrat voted to impeach after Clinton admitted committing perjury.
The slide in credibility that journalism is in is not because of Rush or Bill or MSNBC or any other right wing buffoon but because of the pervasive and unmistakable left wing bias of the so called mainstream news outlets and because the left's unrelenting strangle hold on them. The refusal by the media to recognize this fact is but another indicator of the entrenched left wing prejudice.
Posted by: Oscar Tamerz at August 24, 2003 03:06 PM