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Michael Sigman, the LA Weekly's former publisher, blogs at the Huffington Post that the paper was wrong to "part ways" with editor Laurie Ochoa. Sigman had originally hired her. His post, though, has some fun with the eccentric ways of the old Weekly.
Sometimes the errors were intentional, like when a smart-aleck designer pasted a Hitler mustache on an Uncle Sam photo in a July 4th ad for a barbeque joint. I had to reprimand the designer and grovel to the restaurant owner while doing my best to suppress a giggle.
More excerpts after the jump.
Most of the blunders were a function of the chaos that reigned -- some would say gloriously -- at The Weekly in those early days. One of the ripest opportunities for flubs was the paper's glut of before-and-after ads -- haircuts to weight-loss to plastic surgery. The haircut ones were tough because it was so hard to tell the latest punk hairdos from very bad hair-days. When we mixed them up, sometimes even the advertisers didn't notice.Shortly after MTV jump-started the destruction of the record business, The Weekly published a music-trivia contest. Readers who answered the arcane questions were eligible for prizes courtesy, if memory serves, of Tower Records. When we inadvertently ran the questions and the answers on facing pages in the same issue, we gave new meaning to the phrase "win-win" situation.