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I Love LAObserved
I visit the site an average of twice a day, usually before I visit the LA Times and sometimes before I check out Drudge and the NY Times. Kevin Roderick does a superb job of capturing Los Angeles. He has … Continue reading
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Kevin Roderick’s Pulitzer Prizes
Kevin Roderick responds. ERSNews.com reports: PULITZER PRIZE "SHARING" EDITOR By ERSNews (Aug 12th, 2008 9:30AM PST) In April 2008, Los Angeles blogger and Internet muckraker Luke Ford posted an item claiming that one of Los Angeles’s major bloggers, Kevin Roderick … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992 los angeles riots, pulitzer award, pulitzer prize awards, pulitzer prizes, rodney king riots, talk radio station
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When Does The Los Angeles News Media Take Bloggers Seriously?
When they show up on Kevin Roderick’s LAObserved.com. Once my Jan. 29, 2007 story on the disintegration of the mayor’s marriage was cited on LAObserved.com (that same day), that put the story in play and soon the LA Times and … Continue reading
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I’m Meeting A Better Class Of People
It used to be that I’d drive up to Barstow for the night and find some crossroads trucker (female) to demonstrate my might. Now I go to swanky parties like Captivity a few weeks ago where Claire Hoffman introduced me … Continue reading
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Patrick Goldstein’s Column Spiked
Kevin Roderick reports on LAObserved.com: The bug at the bottom of the Calendar front in today’s Los Angeles Times says columnist Patrick Goldstein is on assignment. Not true. His The Big Picture column for Tuesday was killed, apparently by associate … Continue reading
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