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I didn't hear it, but Michael Kinsley talked with Kitty Felde on KPCC today about his job as editorial and opinion editor of the L.A. Times. The audio is here; Kitty's separate interview with author Carl Hiaasen is here.
In his latest Sunday column, Kinsley listed some good arguments against a military draft, but you really have to hunt for it on the Times website. The "Opinion" page at LATimes.com doesn't yet list Kinsley as one of the op-ed columnists, alongside the pictures of Scheer, Boot, Morrison and links to Ramirez and Conrad cartoons. Click on "Columns" on the main Times page, same thing: no Kinsley. Did they lay off the person who updates the website?
Speaking of Kinsley, I overheard an interesting exchange in line at Ralph's the other day. A man was asking a woman what the new guy was like, and she was describing him as "kind of a blank slate" and "not really seeming to focus on what people were saying to him" or something like that. I eventually realized they were talking about Kinsley when they chalked up his lack of warmth with the staff as a result of working at home too long when he was with Slate and not being used to the rhythyms of a daily paper. Funny what you can hear at the supermarket!
Posted by: Patty at July 20, 2004 10:58 AM
of LA Observed
You were perhaps being facetious, but in fact I was told recently that a key Web-site editor took the buyout.
Posted by: The Raven at July 20, 2004 06:52 AM