Category Archives: Journalism

Thousands Line Up For Free Money

The top story on NYTimes.com right now is: "Thousands Line Up For Free Health Care." Why is this news? Thousands of people would line up for free car care. Thousands of people would line up for free money. A free … Continue reading

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Investigation Or Extortion?

The Enterprise Report says: Award winning local Los Angeles TV investigative personality Joel Grover, set to receive another national IRE (www.ire.org) award this weekend for a piece on contaminated water in public schools last year, has used some highly questionable … Continue reading

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How Did A Pot-Smoking Anarchist Become The Guardian Of The Conventional Morality?

JTA’s head of digital media, Daniel Sierardski, writes: One phenomenon that appears to be accelerating the decline of at least some Jewish news organizations is the rise of a group of Jewish news aggregation Web sites, predominantly serving the ultra-Orthodox … Continue reading

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TV Boss’s Interesting Ethics

From The Enterprise Report: Corsini may not be far behind the Mayor of LA when it comes to raising questions within a newsroom about ethics.  A little known public aspect of his former stewardship of the KCAL/KCBS TV stations as … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Times Book Festival Sunday

I walk around the UCLA campus feeling not quite in control, that at any minute I might take my pen and stab someone. I’m a dangerous man. My first panel is at 10:30 am — "Laugh Track — moderator Amy … Continue reading

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