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A Visit With Bill Lobdell, Author of Losing My Religion

Mark Joseph | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Reporting, Religion, William Lobdell, Atheism, Los Angeles Times, Losing My Religion, Religious Leaders, God, Bill Lobdell, Belief, Media News

For years Bill Lobdell covered religion for the LA Times and if his experience is any guide, spending too much time poking around the underbelly of American religion can be lethal to one's faith.

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Chicago Tribune, LA Times Merge National Sports Beats

Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tribune Company, Chicago Sports, Mike Kellams, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Sports Coverage, Chicago Tribune, Newspaper Industry, Chicago News

If you're a regular reader of the Tribune sports section, you've noticed that Sam Farmer is writing columns on the NFL and Chris Dufresne is weighing ...

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The Incredible Shrinking Health Care Reform

Norman Solomon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Time Magazine, Mandates, President Obama, Single Payer, Drug Lobby Insurance Companies, Organizing for America, Cokie Roberts, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Karen Ignagni, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform, Physicians for a National Health Program, Home News

Notions of universal health care are fading in the power centers of politics -- while more and more attention focuses on the care and feeding of the insurance industry.

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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

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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Miami Social: To Be or Not to Be ... Funny, and a Whore

Michael Cohen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Miami Beach, Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Bravo TV, Cnn, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Los Angeles Times, Zac Posen, Kim Kardashian, Miami Social, Khloe Kardashian, Life & Style Weekly, Entertainment News

I actually found myself laughing out loud during last night's episode, though this time at my own wit. I found the sensation strange because I am not used to watching my real self on television.

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The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Social Security, Labor, Labor Unions, New Deal, Manuel Zelaya, Los Angeles Times, Fdr, Honduras, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Honduras Coup, Foreign Policy, World News

Imagine how different America might be today, if FDR had been deposed in a coup. That's what happened in Honduras, where President Zelaya was deported for proposing a referendum on reforming the constitution.

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Think Again: The End of Local Reporting

Eric Alterman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Layoffs, Newspapers, Local News, Los Angeles Times, Reporters, Death of Newspapers, Investigative Journalism, Propublica, David Simon, Newspaper Industry, Media News

With much of the world of journalism focusing on the trials and tribulations of our great national newspapers, it's easy to forget the importance of Tip O'Neill's old adage: "All politics is local."

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LAT, Arias: US Must Pressure Honduran Coup Leaders

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Honduras, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Diplomacy, Oscar-Arias, Foreign Policy, World News

For Aria's mediation to succeed, a key ingredient is required: sustained and escalating US pressure on the coup regime, until it agrees to the restoration of President Zelaya.

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God’s Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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John Arthur, #2 Editor At Los Angeles Times, Forced Out

Editor & Publisher | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Newspapers, Russ Stanton, John Arthur, Media News

NEW YORK John Arthur has been forced out as Los Angeles Times executive editor. Editor Russ Stanton explained in a posting at the paper's Web site,...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sticking It to "America's Best"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warren Thornton Youth Center, California Economic Crisis, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, George W. Bush, General Douglas MacArthur, California, Governor Schwarzenegger, San Francisco Chronicle, California State Government, The Terminator, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Schwarzenegger, Sacramento, California Budget Crisis, Capitol, Budget Cuts, Politics News

Thanks to an economic crisis his good friend George W. Bush gave us, Schwarzenegger is launching a frontal assault against virtually all of the state's public sector institutions.

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Michael Jackson Death News Cripples Web

Huffington Post | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Death Internet, Michael Jackson Dies, Los Angeles Times, Michael Jackson Death, Twitter, Tmz, Media News

The death of Michael Jackson Thursday sent the internet a surge of traffic that caused crashes and slowdowns in what one website is calling a major "w...

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So Many Books, So Many Friends

Jonathan Black | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Goodreads, Los Angeles Times, Reading, Good Reading, Books, Amazon, Media News

Surely we were meant to spend more time reading books than creating lists and harvesting opinions.

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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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Paper of Record Is No Longer Interesting

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Papers of Record, Style, Jon Stewart, Writing, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Media News, Strunk and White, Journalism, Media News

Newspapers strive to be viewed as the defenders of society -- holding government and industry accountable for their actions in instances where the eve...

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The Reckoning - Thousands of Dealers to Be Cut This Week

Steve Parker | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: National Automobile Dealers Association, Chrysler, Ronald Reagan, General Motors, Opec, Specialty Equipment Market Association, Sema, Saturn Sky, Pontiac Solstice, Detroit, Cars, Obama Administration, Los Angeles Times, Business News

And now, with Chrysler in bankruptcy and General Motors probably in it in another week or so, the other shoe drops. The one that's really about Main S...

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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

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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Whaaat?

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Orange County, David Axelrod, Tom Malinowski, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Luong Vu, Cold War, New York Times, Norm Eisen, Vietnam, Media News

If you wonder what you'll be missing when newspapers vanish, consider these two stories that deal with the infuriating decisions rendered by the bureaucrats in the service of the United States.

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Why Those L.A. Times Ads Will Hurt Its Bottom Line

Albert Kim | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Front Page Ads, Los Angeles Times, Newspapers, Los Angeles Times Front Page Ad, Media News

The internal war that erupted this week at the Los Angeles Times broke down along all-too familiar lines.

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Los Angeles Times Executive Editor: "Southland" Ad Was "Horrible," I Was On Vacation

The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Newspapers, Los Angeles Times Front Page Ad, John Arthur, Media News

John Arthur, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, talked to TheWrap about his concern over two advertisements that have stirred conflict within...

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Another Los Angeles Times Advertisement Draws Fire

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Ads, Los Angeles Times Front Page Ad, Los Angeles, Media News

A day after it ran a front-page advertisement for an NBC show that resembled a news story, The Los Angeles Times faced more questions Friday for anoth...

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Los Angeles Times Publisher Defends Front Page "Story" Ad

Los Angeles Times | Alana Semuels and Martin Zimmerman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Front Page Ads, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Front Page Ad, Eddy Hartenstein, Media News

Publisher Eddy Hartenstein said he decided to run the NBC ad despite newsroom objections because he was trying to ensure that The Times could continue...

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Los Angeles Times Runs Front Page Ad Designed To Look Like Story On NBC

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Front Page Ads, Nbc, Los Angeles Times, Newspapers, Los Angeles Times Front Page Ad, Media News

emember when the New York Times (NYT) started selling off part of its front page to CBS (CBS) earlier this year, generating a brief bit of buzz? The L...

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Goodbye Los Angeles Times

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Tribune Company, Newspapers, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Keith Olbermann, Media, Business, Los Angeles, The Daily Show, Barack Obama, Newspaper Industry, Los Angeles-California, Media News

I canceled my subscription to the LA Times today. It's become an embarrassment, like someone who wears an obvious toupee. They think they're fooling people, but they're not.

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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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