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Category Archives: Los Angeles Times
LAT Caves To CAA?
Kevin Roderick posts: "Well, either Hawthorne agreed not to quote Lourd or the Times capitulated to one of Hollywood’s most powerful agents. Not to suggest, of course, that the LAT has become addicted to access for the celebrity puff features … Continue reading
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Where will Sam Zell take the struggling Tribune Company?
Connie Bruck writes in The New Yorker: Zell, who was raised in an Orthodox household and is a supporter of Israel, says that his religion has never been an issue in Abu Dhabi or in other Arab countries. “In no … Continue reading
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Susan Booth Moore and Adam Robert Tschorn Cover Fashion For LA Times
She likes to chew her gum loudly on the front row of fashion shows. They married in June 2003.
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Ads On Page One Of LA Times
Kirk emails: "Don’t you think the LA Times running ads on page one is the signal of the end of a once great paper? When I was in journalism school, no paper would ever be taken seriously if they ran … Continue reading
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Who Has to Commit Suicide in this Town to Make the Front Page?
Mickey Kaus writes: I couldn’t believe–just a few days after their prospective new owner gave them a lecture on how they had to give customers the news the customers wanted–that the editors of the L.A. Times would run the Owen … Continue reading
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Zell Disses L.A. Times
Mickey Kaus blogs: After apparent Tribune Company owner-to-be Sam Zell visited the L.A. Times a week or so ago, Publisher-for-Now David Hiller sent a memo to the paper’s staff describing Zell as a "[h]igh energy straight-talking business owner" who "[b]elieves … Continue reading
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The L.A. Times Misses Robert Scheer
I can’t stand Scheer’s politics but his left-wing replacements on the L.A. Times Op/Ed page rarely pack his punch. He’s a good funny writer who’s yet to be adequately replaced at the Times. I know Cathy Seipp’s rolling over in … Continue reading
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Where’s Beckham?
David Beckham scores his first goal for the L.A. Galaxy tonight. He also gets an assist and a yellow card. It’s exciting to be a Los Angeleno. The story is at the top of the Drudge Report. I go to … Continue reading
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Stayin’ Alive
From today’s L.A. Times: "An article in the July 29 Opinion section on the referee gambling scandal stated that New York Post sportswriter Maury Allen had passed away. The 75-year-old is alive."
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