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The Media Stovepipe

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: LA Times, Obama Swiftboat, President Obama, Samsara, Obama, Swiftboat, Barack Obama, Swiftboating, Journalistic Bias, Patrick Caddell, Fox News, John Kerry Swiftboating, Journalistic Ethics, Glenn Beck, Fox, Chicago Tribune Swamp, Anonymous Sources, Fox News Channel, Stovepiping, Media News
Matt Osborne

We've seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity.

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Mental Illness Coverage Is Mixed

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Suicide, Seung-Hui Cho, N.Y. Times, L.A. Times, Akmal Shaikh, Media News
Robert David Jaffee

I too have experienced delusions on an airplane. Though I have tamed my one-time diagnosis of schizophrenia, I did show psychotic symptoms earlier in the year when I was switching medication.

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Review: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars by William Patry

Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Internet, File Sharing, Technology, Copyright, LA Times, William Patry, Technology vs. Content, Google, Books News
Jonathan Handel

Patry's book, on the conflict between technology and content, is riddled with invective, unoriginal observations, and numerous typographical errors.

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Women Sweep Literature Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature Prizes, Nobel Prize, Books, Orange Prize, Herta Muller, Hilary Mantel, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, Booker Prize, Fiction Prizes, Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize, LA Times, Housekeeping, Literature Awards, Literary Prizes, Books News

Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...

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Social Media Can Lead to Travel Deals and Discounts

Terry Gardner | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Social Media, Discounts, LA Times, Twitter, Facebook, Airlines, Airfare, Customer Service, Deals, United Airlines, Air New Zealand, Southwest Airlines, Matchmaking Flight, Living News
Terry Gardner

Beyond Twitter and Facebook, airlines are connecting and entertaining passengers on Flickr and YouTube.

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Fixed?

Wendy Block | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, LA Times, Fair Elections Now Act, Senate, Congress, Public Option, California Clean Money Campaign, Big Money, Big Oil, Lobbyists, Progressives, Npr, Special Interests, Health Reform, Lobbying, Politics News
Wendy Block

Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Milk. All special interest patrons of America's Big Money bordello. What are good progressives to do? Either we get lobotomies or we fix the way the country finances politics.

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Did Megan Want a Killer Millionaire?

Robin Sax | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ryan Jenkins, Robin Sax Posts, Jasmine Fiore, Dea'von Bailey, Lily Burk, Vh1, LA Times, Entertainment News
Robin Sax

When are people going to start doing the necessary work to ensure that wife-beaters-turned-killers don't make it onto reality shows?

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Freiburg, a Very Eco-Friendly German City

Terry Gardner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: LA Times, Germany, Pedestrian Zones, Bicycles, Windmills, Environment, Green, Eco-Friendly, Solar Power, Freiburg, Green News
Terry Gardner

The old-town center of Freiburg is car-free; it's one extensive pedestrian zone of streets, squares and lanes.

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Don't, Please: An Atheist's Defense

Landon Ross | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living

Read More: LA Times, Religion, Atheism, The Friendly Atheist, Charlotte Allen, Christianity, Atheists, Jews, Islam, Philosophy, Judaism, Science, Muslim, Living News
Landon Ross

Charlotte Allen tries to trivialize the Atheist movement on the basis that we are boring, even if angry, fanatics who whine about being oppressed. Allen is wrong about everything; except this: I'm an Atheist, and I'm angry.

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"Shades of Gray": The Real Story Behind My Resignation from the L.A. County DA's Office

Robin Sax | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson Death, Los Angeles-California, Larry King LIve, Robin Sax, LA Times, District Attorney, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Politics News
Robin Sax

I am here to give you the down-low on my departure from the DA's office. And for those of you who know my style of "telling it like it is," I will not disappoint you now.

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Morphing Into Celebrity

Candy Spelling | Posted 08.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Reality Shows, Fame, Game Shows, Us Weekly, L.A. Times, Aaron Spelling, Celebrities, Media News
Candy Spelling

The coverage of Janice Min's resignation from Us Weekly was particularly intriguing because she did so much to change the definition of "celebrity."

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Obama's Health Plan: We're Being Bamboozled

John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Barack Obama, LA Times, White House, Biden, Big Business, Pharmaceutical Industry, Cheney, Obama Health Care, Big Government, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Critics who refer to Obama's proposed public health plan as socialism have got it all wrong. The menace we face is the triumph of corporatism; the corporate state wedded to the government.

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Trust Your Newspaper's Travel Section

Terry Gardner | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media

Read More: LA Times, Newspapers, Good Journalism, Trust, Discounted Travel, Ethics, Honest Reporting, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Freebies, Media News
Terry Gardner

When you tell people you write travel articles, they often reply: "Gee, all the free travel must be swell!" Not true. Newspapers have strict ethical rules that prohibit accepting freebies.

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Los Angeles Times' Cover Taken Over By Full-Page Ad

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Hbo, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, Newspapers, True Blood, Media News

LOS ANGELES — Vampires have taken over the Los Angeles Times. Beneath the masthead of Friday print editions is a full front-page ad for the HBO...

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You Won't Believe What Martin Eisenstadt Said At The White House Correspondents Dinner

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

Read More: LA Times, Howard Kurtz, President Obama, Twitter, Martin Eisenstadt, Somali Pirates, Green Zone, The New Republic, Demi Moore, Howard Kurtz Reliable Sources, Time Magazine, White House Correspondents Dinner, Facebook, Diane Tucker, Dan Mirvish, Mainstream Media, Time.com, Cnn, John McCain 2008, Wanda Sykes, Todd Palin, MSNBC Martin Eisenstadt, Eitan Gorlin, Ashton Kutcher Twitter, Wanda Sykes Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Wanda Sykes White House Correspondents Dinner, Wolf Blitzer, Ashton Kutcher, Rachel Skylar, Fox News, Media News
Diane Tucker

TIME.com followed several members of the "elite Twitterati" as they attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the ballroom of the Washington ...

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Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: LA Times, Ben Hong, Safer City Inititiative, The Soloist, Steve Lopez, Poverty, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Incarceration, LA CAN, Jiulliard School of Performing Arts, Jaywalking, Downtown Los Angeles, Atonement, Los Angeles, Lamp Community, Mental Illness, Casey Huran, Skid Row, Homelessness, Federico Fellini, Gary Foster, Lawlessness, Los Angeles Times, Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright, Nathaniel Ayers, Gentrification, Sci, Entertainment News
Linda Milazzo

Instead of telling the tales of the homeless, the film portrayed them as a Fellini-esque monolith -- a tainted Gomorrah teeming with decadence and dereliction.

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The Soloist Chases an L.A. That Isn't There

Sharon Waxman | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Lopez, The Soloist, L.A. Times, Sharon Waxman, LA Times, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Sharon Waxman

Once upon a time it fell to the local newspaper to remind me that I was part of an urban landscape, the second largest in the nation. But it started to lose me several years back.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 30, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Freakonomics, New Hampshire, Media Criticism, Rush Limbaugh, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Print Media, Jezebel, Iran, L.A. Times, Barack Obama, New Hampshire Polls, Neo-Conservatism, Timothy Geithner, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

L.A. Times contributor Andrew Klavan DOUBLE DOG DARES YOU intolerable lefties to listen...just listen!...to Rush Limbaugh's show! Because if you did,...

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LA Times Falsely Claims Clinton Used "Way More" Signing Statements Than Bush

Washington Monthly | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: LA Times, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Signing Statements, Bush Signing Statements, George W. Bush, Andrew Malcolm, Los Angeles Times, Clinton Signing Statements, The Los Angeles Times, Barack Obama, Obama Signing Statements, Politics News

NOT EVEN CLOSE.... The LA Times' Andrew Malcolm played a little fast and loose yesterday, commenting on President Obama's directive on Bush's signing ...

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I Know What Congress Is Reading

Candy Spelling | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Golf Sponsorship, Northern Trust, Newspapers, L.A. Times, Bailout, John Kerry, Barney Frank, Banks, Congress, Media, tmz.com, Media News
Candy Spelling

Thanks, TMZ.com. It's nice to know Congress is paying attention to the media.

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CIA Secret Rendition Policy Backed by Human Rights Groups?

Tom Hayden | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: LA Times, Obama Justice Department, European Union, CIA Torture, Obama Administration, Criminal Justice, Italy, Justice Department, Macedonia, Barack Obama, Human Rights, Criminal Justice System, Human Rights Watch, Egypt, Middle East, Albania, Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times, Europe, Torture, Politics News
Tom Hayden

If the Justice Department wants to defend renditions as constitutional on "national security" grounds, human rights groups should meet them in court and seek a better outcome.

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Where Have All The Chicago Reporters Gone?

Ryan Blitstein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Coverage, Midwest Coverage, Tribune Company, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Chicago Bureaus, Pj Hufstutter, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News
Ryan Blitstein

Locals aren't getting the coverage we need and America is receiving a skewed perspective on the lives of 60 million-plus people in Chicago and other major cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Minneapolis.

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L.A. Times: Turn Off Your Presses

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 01.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Sam Zell, LA Times, Sam Zell LA Times, Washington Post, Tribune Company, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

Why not go ahead and turn off the presses and the trucks and turn the LA Times into a pure news enterprise, disaggregated from its production and distribution businesses?

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All's Well That Ends Zell

Marty Kaplan | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media

Read More: David Geffen LA Times, LA Times, Rick Riordan, Newspapers, Tribune Company, Tribune Employees, Sam Zell Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Sam Zell LA Times, Tribune Bankruptcy, David Geffen, Chicago Tribune, Eli Broad, Sam Zell, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Marty Kaplan

Sam Zell didn't cause the crisis in modern journalism, but he did turn a superb and profitable institution into a basket case. The people who work there, and the people who read it, deserve way better.

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