http://www.laobserved.com/ Los Angeles media, news, books and sense of place Copyright 2008 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lunchtime brawls at Locke High in South Los Angeles involved hundreds of students and led to four arrests, as well as a campus lockdown.... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/friday_deskclearing_18.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/friday_deskclearing_18.php News briefs Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:14 -0800 "In fact, we made no errors," John T. O'Loughlin, President/Targeted Media and SVP/Marketing for Los Angeles Times Media Group, writes to the head of the... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/times_responds_to_broadca.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/times_responds_to_broadca.php Los Angeles Times Fri, 09 May 2008 15:28:11 -0800 The Planning Report, the monthly about Los Angeles and So Cal planning and development published by David Abel, is letting its readers vote online on... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/split_decision.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/split_decision.php Physical Los Angeles Fri, 09 May 2008 11:14:02 -0800 The president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association has a bone to pick with a recent L.A. Times house ad claiming the paper has more... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/broadcasters_dispute_time.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/broadcasters_dispute_time.php Los Angeles Times Fri, 09 May 2008 09:07:26 -0800 Jimmy Fallon to take over for Conan O'Brien The SNL alum will slide in when O'Brien comes out here to take over for Jay Leno,... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/morning_buzz_friday_5908.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/morning_buzz_friday_5908.php Morning Buzz Fri, 09 May 2008 08:55:09 -0800 Regarding yesterday's item from the Daily Mail about LAPD Chief William Bratton advising the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Bratton says there has been no... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/bratton_responds_about_lo.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/bratton_responds_about_lo.php Police beat Fri, 09 May 2008 01:37:10 -0800 I never know what to really make of this data, but Scarborough Research has released its 2008 Newspaper Audience Ratings Report. It aims to estimate,... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/ranking_socals_newspapers.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/ranking_socals_newspapers.php Newspapers Fri, 09 May 2008 01:31:06 -0800 Cal State Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald is a hero of the anti-Semitic crowd for writing that Jews have evolved as a tribal elite... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/long_beachs_jewfearing_pr.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/long_beachs_jewfearing_pr.php Academia Fri, 09 May 2008 00:21:22 -0800 Former KPCC reporter Doualy Xaykaothao showed up today reporting for National Public Radio from Thailand on the Myanmar relief efforts. Before joining KPCC last year,... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/xaykaothao_in_bangkok.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/xaykaothao_in_bangkok.php Radio Thu, 08 May 2008 19:54:03 -0800 The seaside city has asked Ken Starr, dean of the Pepperdine Law School, to convene media and legal experts to help draft an ordinance that... http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/malibus_secret_antipapara.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/05/malibus_secret_antipapara.php Celebrity culture Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:08 -0800