{"id":50,"date":"2007-01-20T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T00:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-12-11T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:51:18","slug":"david-geffen-and-the-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"David Geffen And The L.A. Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/profiles\/profiles\/david_geffen.htm\">David Geffen<\/a>          And The L.A. Times  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2155910\/\">Kim Masters writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve heard from multiple sources in L.A., including an editor at the            Times, that Geffen told a Timesman that were he to succeed in buying            the paper, his first order of business would be firing a reporter in            the business section who had crossed him. If Geffen has that on his            to-do list\u001amuch less at the top\u001ahe is the wrong man at the wrong Times.            Yes, he has a canny eye for quality, from Joni Mitchell to Jackson Pollock.            But he could make Wendy McCaw, the multimillionaire owner who has decimated            the Santa Barbara News-Press, look Pulitzer-obsessed.  Those who have dealt with Geffen while covering this business should            find that obvious. Geffen is famously vindictive. One reporter now at            the Times once called me in tears after an encounter with him on the            phone (one truly has to be on the receiving end of his verbal savagery            to appreciate it). And does anyone think he&#8217;ll tolerate articles that            annoy him or his friends? And he has lots of friends\u001afrom Hollywood            to Washington, from Steven Spielberg to Hillary Clinton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Geffen And The L.A. Times Kim Masters writes: I&#8217;ve heard from multiple sources in L.A., including an editor at the Times, that Geffen told a Timesman that were he to succeed in buying the paper, his first order of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}