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May 31, 2003
Tim Rutten's fifth straight Regarding Media column on the New York Times problems notes that, "it was a lousy week for the Times, whose self-inflicted...
Robinson had been the managing editor at KCBS-TV Channel 2 in the early 1990s and had also worked at KTTV/FOX-TV Channel 11. He won eight...
May 30, 2003
Tonight is the final show of KCET's Life and Times with Jess Marlow as the co-anchor. Jess is retiring to Santa Fe, New Mexico after...
Hugh Hewitt, once the designated voice of the right on KCET's Life & Times, goes a little deeper on the L.A. Times bias memo than...
The longest-established news outlet to focus on Santa Monica is not a newspaper but the website Surf Santa Monica, which opened as The Lookout in...
Self-described conservative Republican L.A. blogger Luke Ford attends a panel discussion featuring warriors of the Left and Right -- Robert Scheer and David Horowitz --...
LAT science writer K.C. Cole shows up in this week's New Yorker with a story on Janet Conrad, "the woman who hunts neutrinos." Also in...
Thousands of booksellers, publishers, editors, authors and other literary figures are attending the gathering at the L.A. Convention Center. Bill O'Reilly, Molly Ivins, Al Franken...
Los Angeles author/blogger Roger L. Simon asks the question, half facetiously we hope, after being underwhelmed by Bob Scheer's latest column on Jessica Lynch in...
May 29, 2003
Interest in LAT Editor John Carroll's memo on liberal bias (originally posted here at L.A. Observed) has been heavy, especially at the conservative punditry sites....
Writing in the L.A. Independent, Beverly Hills author and journalist Tony Castro sounds skeptical that ex-mayor and current power broker Dick Riordan will actually produce...
John Powers' appreciation of Bob Hope on this afternoon's Fresh Air includes this deliciously subversive wish -- to have seen Hope take on a more...
Susan Estrich, the USC law professor who ran the presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis, has an intriguing column out about newspaper op-ed pages. Nine out...
The magazine is relocating to New York from its offices in Woodland Hills, says Keith J. Kelly in the New York Post. Editor Jerry Kindela...
Greg Goldin in the LA Weekly considers the new Moorish-palace Exxon station at Beverly and Fairfax, which opened last weekend. The design alone -- incorporating...
The new liberal political magazine being planned from L.A. by Helen O'Donnell won't be a revival of George but it still will try for a...
In his L.A. Times op-ed column today, Robert Scheer responds to bashers who say his previous column on the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch got...
Best piece I've seen yet on the Rick Bragg affair (the most insight with the least anti-NYT distortion) is Seth Mnookin's report on the uproar...
May 28, 2003
Fun read on the Southern California beach and teen culture of the 1950s: Deanne Stillman's encounters with the original Gidget, posted at California Authors.com. As...
Kathryn Downing, the CEO and publisher who presided at the L.A. Times during the Staples Center/Times magazine fiasco, is on the short list of candidates...
L.A. Observed Exclusive: Memo from LAT editor John Carroll on the paper's "liberal bias."
May 27, 2003
Gross will become director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication on July 1. He has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg...
Eli Broad, the subject of a long profile by Ed Leibowitz in the June issue of Los Angeles magazine, gave up $5.9 billion in net...
Checking out the news rack headlines outside Starbucks this morning I did a double take at the colorful Daily News banner, thinking I'd missed a...
An LAT personnel memo today (posted at Romenseko's Media News) expands on the Sunday report here about television critic Howard Rosenberg retiring. He will give...
"Obviously, I'm taking a bullet here," the suspended New York Times Pulitzer winner tells Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. "Anyone with half a brain...
LA Examiner.com pulls together a bunch of the online and Administration bile being spewed over Bob Scheer's column buying into the BBC report that the...
May 26, 2003
Rick Orlov in the Daily News reports that the state Republican Party get together at Dick Riordan's home last week took in $140,000, even without...
Mickey Kaus is shocked that New York Times reporters use material from stringers and interns, but he shouldn't be. I don't mean that as a...
David L. Ulin writes in the LAT about "Southland" by Nina Revoyr and "Fear Itself," Walter Mosley's second Fearless Jones novel. April Smith (North of...
It's an experiment, like the rest of this. We'll see how it goes. Once I figure out how to automate a Romenesko-style letters page that's...
Mariel Garza in the Daily News reports that the L.A. star of the moment, police chief Bill Bratton, may be too mouthy for mellow Angelenos....
May 25, 2003
Buzz is sweeping the second floor at the LAT that the television critic will give up his longtime column this summer. If true, news execs...
Macarena Hernandez, the San Antonio reporter whose story was lifted by Jayson Blair, gives her side of the debacle in the LAT Sunday Opinion section....
The New York Times story today on "Sleeping with the Ambassador" carries the headline Welcome Back to the Hotel California. It's a nice play on...
Gary Indiana hates it: "meretricious, revolting twaddle." In the book retired LAPD homicide cop Steve Hodel fingers his father as the 1947 Black Dahlia killer,...
May 24, 2003
Rick Bragg, who worked at the LAT for about a month before jumping to the New York Times, has been suspended by the NYT in...
May 23, 2003
The ex-con author and sometime L.A. Weekly columnist died in a hotel room and not heroically. Howard Blume, his editor at the Weekly, does the...
May 22, 2003
Memorial Day's "Airtalk with Larry Mantle" on KPCC-FM (89.3) will be a prerecorded show on historic preservation from the ghostly Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire, featuring...
May 21, 2003
The victory Tuesday of David Tokofsky means that ex-mayor Dick Riordan lost another bid to hold on to his (and Eli Broad's) influence on the...
Miguel Contreras and the L.A. labor council won big in Tuesday's victory of Martin Ludlow in the 10th council district. They already helped elect Ludlow's...
May 20, 2003
He shot iconic photos of the Watts riots and the Dodgers' welcoming parade in 1958. Neither of those, unfortunately, are in the online gallery at...
You may have missed the headline in this morning's LAT -- buried on B4. Ten Angelenos murdered in an especially violent spate ("We haven't had...
May 19, 2003
I've driven all over the rural West and love the road, but I loathe the return leg to L.A. from Vegas on I-15. Great scenery,...
The ex-mayor and would-be publisher's Brentwood home is the site of a fundraiser tonight for the state Republican Party, Rick Orlov reports in the Daily...
May 18, 2003
Mal Florence was at the Times forever and was best known for covering USC football and writing Morning Briefing. He was 77 and mostly retired,...
Friends and former colleagues are pouring in heartfelt memories over at LAExaminer.com. She wrote the "Bite Me" column for New Times L.A. before the weekly...
From a Q-and-A on JournalismJobs.com with Matt Labash of the conservative Weekly Standard: JournalismJobs.com: Why have conservative media outlets like The Weekly Standard and Fox...
From a column at ReasonOnline : "'Media bias' is usually code for 'insufficient bias toward my views.'"...
May 14, 2003
This blog is coming to life in the midst of the scandal over disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair. He made up stories, claimed...
Author D.J. Waldie writes with his usual evocative grace about the travails and occasional thrills of being a guest of the MTA, in the June...
May 13, 2003
My name is Kevin Roderick. I am an author, a journalist, an Angeleno and wear assorted other labels. I suppose I'm also now a blogger....
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