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September 17, 2008
Sam Zell responded to yesterday's class-action lawsuit by Los Angeles Times employees — which was first reported here — in a Dear Partners note to the company. He calls the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Brad Pitt announced today that he will donate $100,000 to oppose Proposition 8, the November initiative that seeks to re-eliminate same-sex marriage in California. "Because no one has the right... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
USC Annenberg mothballed the original Online Journalism Review in June. But Geneva Overholser, the new director of the Annenberg School of Journalism, announced today that OJR is coming back under... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Chuck Peck's cell phone called family members 35 times on Friday night and Saturday during the hours while they waited to hear whether he had survived the Metrolink train crash... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sam Zell's Channel 5 may be trying to distance its news from the Hal Fishman legacy, but the station announced yesterday that it's going back to the future with Rose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Steve Lopez visits in today's column with Dorothy Green, the longtime water activist and founder of Heal the Bay who is in hospice care for metastasized cancer. She is 79,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tribune has no response yet to Times staffers' class-action lawsuit. LAT (The suit also made the Daily Journal front page) Mayor Villaraigosa said he is satisfied by the May... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
OK, here's a last report (I think) from Tuesday night's Obama funder in Beverly Hills. On his way in to the event, former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan — a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Only four seconds elapsed from the time the two engineers could have seen each other around the curve in Chatsworth where the Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Here's what the pool reporters filed from Beverly Hills for the traveling national media and the locals. Pool Report – No. 1 Sept. 16, 2008 Beverly Hills, Calif. No News.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>