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 Wilson suicide-attempt story on page B3. And they didn’t! They ran it on page B-4. With a little box on B-1 featuring the riveting headline, "Actor hospitalized." … Let’s see: A leading money-making actor, "one of Hollywood’s top comedy stars," at the peak of his career, slits his wrists. … In Los Angeles. … Where movies are not just gossip material–they are what cars are to Detroit: the big local industry. Page B4! …

Once again, across the continent, three hours behind, the New York Post had plenty of time to put a much better story on its front page. … I have run out of ways of saying that the LAT is a pathetic stuffy, faux-newspaper run by respectable liberal twits and doomed to die! Janet Clayton, the paper’s respectable, life-sapping AME, should take an Annenberg School slot while she still can.