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- The Times' Christine Daniels now writes a sports blog, Day in L.A., full time for the paper's website.
- Paris Hilton announces she won't appeal her jail time, a day after Sheriff Baca said her celebrity is earning her a stiffer-than-typical punishment. TMZ reports that she is back on her meds and will stay at the Twin Towers rather than return to Lynwood, so things are looking up for her. Hilton's visitors and toilet practices are being noted day by day.
- Joe Scott blogs on the contrast between Hilton's treatment and the 60-day sentence Robert Mitchum received for "conspiracy to possess" marijuana in 1948. “Jail is like Palm Springs without the riffraff," the actor quipped.
- How hot is TMZ in the aftermath of breaking most of the Paris Hilton-to-jail news? They just hired veteran CBS2 producer Andrew Epstein, who left the Channel 2 & 9 duopoly on Friday with a going-away bash at Firefly.
- Scientists still don't know why the honeybees are dying, but curiously, Sunday's L.A. Times headline made it sound like the paper had just discovered this running story.
- Nikki Finke blogs that the Times should take business reporter Chuck Philips off the Pellicano story. Raw materials at LAIndie.com.
- Paul Lukacs, the ex-entertainment lawyer who is blogging his travels in Asia, critiques today's Times Travel piece on visiting North Korea.
- USC professor and Channel 4 political commentator Sherry Bebitch Jeffe now has a home for her perspective pieces on the KNBC website — here it is.
- LA Observed contributor Denise Hamilton had an essay about reading to boys in today's LAT Book Review.
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Some fixes from the week: Apparently the Times erred when it reported that Kelly Mullens' name had been on a press release about Brian Grazer's special section of Current, so I was inaccurate by picking it up. I also misspelled columnist Helene Elliott's name — alas, not for the first time. Finally, an honorable mention for Correction o' the Day: Edith Pilaf in the L.A. Times.