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Los Angeles Times Reporters File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Sam Zell, Tribune

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 09.16.2008 | Media

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It would be hard to argue that Sam Zell really knows his way around the newspaper business. But does his floundering constitute grounds for legal acti...

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Arianna Gives The LA Times A Tour Of The HuffPost Oasis (VIDEO)

Posted 08.27.2008 | Media

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Arianna Gives The LA Times A Tour Of The HuffPost Oasis: ...

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Beware Biden's Bombast

Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics

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Jerry Weissman

Barack Obama's choice of Joseph Biden as his Vice-Presidential running mate has already run into criticism about conflicting messages. Many MSM writer...

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Media Ownership for All: Citizen Journalism Grows Up

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media

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Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Independent photojournalists, NGO workers and citizens are part of this important movement to take back the news from those who focus on profits.

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Los Angeles Earthquake Photos

Posted 07.29.2008 | Home

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** Complete details about the Southern California earthquake here. Video of the quake and related news is here. ** Satellite images of the earthquake...

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Los Angeles Earthquake Video

Posted 07.29.2008 | Home

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** Complete details about the Southern California earthquake here. Photos of the quake and related news are here. ** A strong earthquake shook Southe...

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Fahrenheit L.A. Times

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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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.

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Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

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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.

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Tribune Tower For Sale: Zell Shops Historic Building

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

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

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McCain Out Of Sync On Gay Marriage

Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

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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.

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Poll: CA Gay Marriage Could Be Short-Lived

Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

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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?

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Gay Marriage And Nazism

Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home

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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.

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

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business

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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?

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Keep Kids Covered -- Especially Immigrants

Adam Baer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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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.

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Breaking News: Obama Met Palestinian Intellectuals Ten Years Ago

Jon Wiener | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

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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.

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What a Bunch of Boobs

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living

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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.

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

Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON | Posted 03.22.2008 | Media

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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...

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LA Times Editorial Defends Reporters' First Amendment Rights

The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media

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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...

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Should The Tabloids Lay Off A Mentally Ill Celebrity?

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 02.19.2008 | Media

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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...

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

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

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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...

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LA Times To Lay Off Over 100 Staffers

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

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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...

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

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 02.07.2008 | Media

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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...

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LA Times Endorses Obama

LA Times | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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

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

Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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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?

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LA Times To Endorse Primary Candidates For First Time Since Nixon

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 01.22.2008 | Media

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

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