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The credit tag at the end of the LAT story on the Mammoth Mountain tragedy includes one Jeffrey M. Johnson. Who's that? Well he's the publisher of the paper. He happened to be in Mammoth Lakes (skiing?) and called in some feeds from the scene. The credit line (and lack of dateline) suggests that he's the only Times staffer in Mammoth, which would be strange since even the TV stations managed to get in last night.