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Tag Archives: Los Angeles Times
Pico-Robertson’s Don Etra Goes To Bat For Client Accused Of Murder
From the Los Angeles Times: In the filing, lawyer Donald Etra wrote that further investigation and forensic tests were required to determine the facts, but his summary of the alleged crime suggested Jassy may contend that Osnes played a more … Continue reading
Posted in Don Etra
Tagged aggressive role, Don Etra, donald etra, forensic tests, Los Angeles Times
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JTA & Duplicate Content
I got this email today from JTA.org: Hey Luke, I’m sure you remember me from my Jewschool days. Just a heads up: JTA’s pretty adamant about making sure that people don’t reprint our content in full if they’re not paying … Continue reading
Posted in FailedMessiah, Journalism, JTA
Tagged death bed, exclusivity, investment pool, jewish community foundation, Los Angeles Times, mainstream media, profit news, takedown notice
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‘Love Junkie’ Author Rachel Resnick
Transcript. Rachel Resnick is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity-profile cover stories in the Los Angeles Times, Women’s Health, and BlackBook.
Posted in Rachel Resnick
Tagged blackbook, celebrity profile, Los Angeles Times, Rachel Resnick, times women
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Bloggers Invade L.A. Times
Eric Ulken writes: What happens when you put a bunch of bloggers in a room, feed them pizza and moderate a discussion on their craft? You end up with two real-time conversations: One in the physical room and the other … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged andrew malcolm, harry chandler, Los Angeles Times, luke ford, rsquo, time conversations
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Email Overload
From the Los Angeles Times: Nor is e-mail always friendly — it can be confrontational in a way that talking usually isn’t. "If we’re having feelings with someone else that we need to confront," says therapist Firstenberg, "many times we’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged e mail, half a day, information bites, information overload, Los Angeles Times, technical advancement
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Doesn’t Anybody At Los Angeles Magazine Understand The English Language?
In his editor’s note in the August issue of Los Angeles magazine, Editor Kit Rachlis writes that the Los Angeles Times has shown "…a disinterest in local politics." "Disinterest" means impartial. "Uninterest" means not interested in. It’s bad enough that … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism
Tagged copy editors, disinterest, l a times, Los Angeles Times, terrible indictment
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Time To Go
Los Angeles Times veteran Joel Sappell voices all the familiar cliches in American Journalism Review as he decides to take the buyout and leave the newspaper after 27 years. His piece is utterly without surprise. He just trundles out the … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Los Angeles Times
Tagged american journalism review, legal affairs, linda greenhouse, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, orthodox shuls
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Crashing Home Prices
My Shabbats used to be ruined by sitting at someone’s table and listening to them moan about the high price of Pico/Robertson real estate and how they had to sell off their first-born child to make their downpayment. Just imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Real Estate
Tagged agony, auschwitz, celia chen, chief economist, credit markets, downpayment, economic forecasting, free zone, global insight, housing market, hundreds of thousands, Jews, lintels, Los Angeles Times, optimists, recession, rest of my life, twink, west chester pa, whinging
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Southern California Savings & Loans Holding On
This is not good for the Jews. The Gentiles are gonna get restless and who will they blame? The Los Angeles Times reports: Investors are increasingly throwing in the towel on Southern California-based savings-and-loan mortgage lenders IndyMac Bancorp, FirstFed Financial … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged adjustable rate loans, ameriquest mortgage co, capital ratio, core capital, downey financial corp, downey savings, federal regulator, first federal bank, first federal bank of california, firstfed financial corp, indymac bancorp, Los Angeles Times, mortgage lenders, new century financial, new century financial corp, office of thrift supervision, reverse mortgage, risk based capital, sub prime lenders, throwing in the towel
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