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Fahrenheit L.A. Times

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media


Jon Robin Baitz

So I read yesterday that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world.

Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living


Steve Parker

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

Tribune Tower For Sale: Zell Shops Historic Building

Chicago Tribune | Robert Manor and Phil Rosenthal | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media


Tribune Tower, the neo-Gothic landmark that adorns Michigan Avenue near the Chicago River, is on the market. Tribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive...

McCain Out Of Sync On Gay Marriage

Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home


Ryan Rivera

With a new poll finding 63 percent of Americans see gay marriage as a "strictly private" decision out of bounds for government regulation, John McCain's recently reiterated position that marriage should be between one man and one woman puts him in the minority.

Poll: CA Gay Marriage Could Be Short-Lived

Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home


Ryan Rivera

Fifty-four percent of California voters would ban gay marriage if voted on today. With the presidential candidates on the same page of the issue -- for civil unions, but against gay "marriage" -- what effect with this hot potato have on the election?

Gay Marriage And Nazism

Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home


Ryan Rivera

The Calif. court ruling to "destroy the man-woman definition of marriage" is akin to Nazis "following orders to gas the Jews?" Really? That's the language of a major campaign presently underway to sway Calif. judges.

Tipping Ought to be Abolished: Let's Just Pay People More Like the Europeans Do

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business


Michael Russnow

I'm well aware that many people in service industries work for low hourly rates and thus need tips to earn a decent wage. The question is, why the hell have we evolved into a tip-earning economy?

Keep Kids Covered -- Especially Immigrants

Adam Baer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


Adam Baer

A couple of weeks ago, an article in the LA Times about young immigrant liver-transplant survivors who hit 21 and lose state health coverage, should have caused more of a (political) stir than it did.

Breaking News: Obama Met Palestinian Intellectuals Ten Years Ago

Jon Wiener | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home


Jon Wiener

Ten years ago, Barack Obama went to a lecture by Columbia Professor Edward Said, the prominent Palestinian intellectual. That rates Page One news today for the LA Times.

What a Bunch of Boobs

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living


Giulia Rozzi

A nightclub in Long Beach has been holding a "Spring Break Breast Augmentation Contest Series" where six finalists go head-to-head in an apple-bobbing battle to receive a free boob job.

Sam Zell Tells LA Times Employees "I'm Your Viagra"

Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON | Posted 03.22.2008 | Media


Sweeping through his newly acquired business units with characteristic bluster and bluntness, it didn't take too long for Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell t...

LA Times Editorial Defends Reporters' First Amendment Rights

The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media


Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy is being held in contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton for refusing to identify the law enforc...

Should The Tabloids Lay Off A Mentally Ill Celebrity?

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 02.19.2008 | Media


Writing in the Los Angeles Times last week, Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and People contributor, argued that the time has come f...

LA Times Names New Editor, The 4th Time In 3 Years

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Posted 02.15.2008 | Media


The Los Angeles Times named a new top editor on Thursday, Russ Stanton, three weeks after the previous editor, James E. O'Shea, was forced out for res...

LA Times To Lay Off Over 100 Staffers

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media


There's a big divide over who should run the L.A. Times, and before Sam Zell and publisher David Hiller announce their choice, they're getting some di...

Sam Zell Tells LA Times Staffers: Watch Porn At Your Desks!

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 02.07.2008 | Media


Tribune chief Sam Zell had a meeting with the staff of The Los Angeles Times today that was so wildly entertaining it puts to shame the one he held at...

LA Times Endorses Obama

LA Times | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics


Democrats preparing to vote in Tuesday's California primary can mark their ballots with confidence, knowing that either candidate would make a strong ...

Yes, You Can... Vote for President in California!

Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics


Rick Jacobs

Having unintentionally created a mass of new unaffiliated voters, is the establishment somehow discouraging those who are outside of the two-party system from really participating in it?

LA Times To Endorse Primary Candidates For First Time Since Nixon

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 01.22.2008 | Media


After 36 years of avoiding endorsements in presidential elections, the Los Angeles Times will begin supporting candidates in both the primaries and ge...

LA Times Editor Fired in Budget Dispute

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 01.21.2008 | Business


LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Times fired its top editor after he rejected a management order to cut $4 million from the newsroom budget, 14 mon...

Shakeup At LA Times As Top Editor Is Forced Out For Resisting Cutbacks

Los Angeles Times | Thomas S. Mulligan | Posted 01.20.2008 | Media


For the second time in 15 months, the editor of the Los Angeles Times has been fired for refusing to impose budget cuts ordered by his publisher. Tim...

Billionaire Eli Broad Withdraws Massive Art Donation From LA County Museum

LA Times | Christopher Knight | Posted 01.11.2008 | Living


The news this week that billionaire art collector Eli Broad has decided not to give any of his 2,000-piece collection to the Los Angeles County Museum...

Sam Stein

Post X-Mas Poll Shows Nomination Race As Tight As Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics


A few days removed from the Christmas Break and the Democratic race for the presidential nomination is as tight as ever. In a recently released Bloom...

Zell: I'm Not Selling L.A. Times

AP | Posted 10.10.2007 | Media


Chicago real estate magnate and Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell said Tuesday he had no plans to sell the Los Angeles Times to any of the moguls who previou...


 

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