Daily Archives: July 12, 2007

Condo Sold to Mirthala Salinas by Major Los Angeles lobby/PR Firm Executive and Villaraigosa campaign contributor

From ERSNews.com: "ERSNews has learned that the Studio City condo owned by Mirthala Salinas and her sister Isabel Salinas was sold to her by a political supporter of the mayor and campaign contributor. In addition, the seller, Robert Steve Bullock, … Continue reading

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Celebrity Journalism as Contact Sport

Manohla Dargis writes this movie review in The New York Times: You don’t need to buy Ms. Malcolm’s take on the reporter-subject relationship (“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going … Continue reading

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Summer Media Reading

Editor Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986) by Richard Kluger: Massive, award-winning book tells the story of the newspaper that for decades ranked … Continue reading

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A.B. Yehoshua’s Endorsement Of War Against Hezbollah

Steven Plaut writes on The Jewish Press blog: A.B. Yehoshua has long been a leading figure in Israel’s Literary Left. A great believer in Palestinian good intentions and peace through appeasement. But suddenly he writes in the YNET web site … Continue reading

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This Week’s Jewish Press

From their blog: Many years have passed since the survivors of the death camps in Auschwitz and Dachau were liberated. Many of those survivors are no longer with us. But their stories and the stories of their reunions with family … Continue reading

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