{"id":805,"date":"2007-08-28T20:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:18:29","slug":"who-has-to-commit-suicide-in-this-town-to-make-the-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Who Has to Commit Suicide in this Town to Make the Front Page?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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 <\/em>would run the Owen Wilson suicide-attempt story on page B3. And they didn’t! They ran it on page B-4. <\/strong>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. <\/em>Page B4! …<\/p>\n

Once again, across the continent, three hours behind, the New York Post<\/em> 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<\/em> is a pathetic stuffy, faux-newspaper run by respectable liberal twits and doomed to die!<\/strong> Janet Clayton, the paper’s respectable, life-sapping AME, should take an Annenberg School slot while she still can.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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 →<\/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":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t