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Morning Buzz: Friday 3.2.07
Last Buzz of the week. Click to get the skinny.
Starters
Subway mercury man gets jail
Armando Bustamante Miranda was sentenced to 90 days in county, plus three years probation and a ban on entering MTA facilities, for spilling that vial of mercury in a Red Line subway station. LAT
Politics
Next: Clinton, Edwards and Giuliani
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is here tonight for a fundraising dinner at the home of Haim Saban. John Edwards brings his presidential aspirations to town Monday for a $2,300/per VIP reception, or a discount $1,000/per fundraiser to follow, at the Beverly Hills home of Trina and Adam Venit. Armyan Bernstein, Skip Paul and Rob Vinson are the other hosts. (I've seen at least one offer of two-for-$500 so I guess tix aren't moving so fast.) Rudy Giuliani is also here Monday to raise some bucks. Variety
Mayor Mentor faces red tape
Before he can help the high schooler who tagged his bus in South L.A., Mayor Villaraigosa must fill out an application, undergo a tuberculosis test and submit to fingerprinting and an interview by the school's principal. LAT
School board money
Times has a charticle on which candidates are getting what from whom. LAT
Community college election
Battle of the slates. LAT
Media
'Frontline' interviews
The PBS website has posted transcripts of the "News War" interviews with Times publisher David Hiller, former editor Dean Baquet and current editor Jim O'Shea. None of his made this week's broadcast. There's also the interview with Ariel Capital Management vice-chairman Charles Bobrinskoy, whose remarks caused O'Shea to issue a written retort.
Village Voice Media observed
Two items: Staff writer Dave Wielenga is the latest to give his notice at the OC Weekly, and the transformation of VVM into New Times is evaluated in the Boston Phoenix: "It’s no surprise that the ex–New Times brass who now lead VVM...want the Voice and its fellow papers to conform to their standardized, apolitical, SunBelt–baked vision of what alternative journalism should be. What is striking, though, is how quickly and decisively defenders of the old left-leaning, decentralized VVM ethos have been routed. The battle just began — and it’s already over." The story runs with this photo of the chain's top editor, Mike Lacey.Playboy TV bloodletting
Reports of many layoffs and the end of graphic and original programming.
Before the Times discovered Cory Kennedy...
There was the LA Weekly, last August.
We're all complicit
Why Paris Hilton stays on the media radar, by Neal Broverman in The Advocate.
Olbermann wins again
The anti-Keith website OlbermannWatch.com has given up the fight.
Jewish Journal's annual spoof cover
Britney Spears, Dennis Prager, rabbis and Arabs kissing. You get the idea.
Noted
Ugliest building in Los Angeles?
Curbed LA is running a contest.
Dognappers on video
Five Yorkshire terriers were taken at gunpoint from a Koreatown home. A surveillance video shows the perps.LAT
Lakers fine Vladimir Radmanovic $500,000
Expensive snow boarding trip. LAT
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| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
An Elysian Park venue that was closed for decades is revived.
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