What Does Allen Stanford Have in Common with Anti-Chevron Group?

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon,...

Barack Obama Says 'Uhh' Once Every 9 Seconds

An analysis of the words spoken by President Barack Obama during his hour-long news conference Tuesday night shows that, while answering reporters' questions, he uttered a variant of the word "uhh" at least once every nine seconds. Though relying upon a flat-screen monitor...

Paulson Among Buyers of Failed IndyMac Bank

The FDIC issued a news release Friday to let the world known the agency’s board had approved a letter of intent to sell IndyMac Bank to a thrift holding company controlled by IMB Management Holdings LP. ...

Brady Campaign Banking on Another Tragedy

Forty-eight-year-old Bruce Pardo set into motion a series of events on Christmas Eve that, according to a Los Angeles Times report, has resulted in nine deaths inside the Covina, Calif., home where members of his ex-wife’s family had gathered for the holidays.  Not...

Ryan Adams Vs. The L.A. Times

Ryan Adams is furious at the L.A. Times over a recent concert review from his Thursday (December 4) performance opening up for Oasis at the Staple Center. The reviewer, Mikael Wood, suggested that Adams, who has...

The 'Real' America, Really

Rosa Brooks, in the Los Angeles Times, writes: About 80% of Americans live in metropolitan areas, not small towns. A third of us are ethnic and racial minorities, but that's changing: Already,nearly 45% of...

From JFK to George Bush and Barack Obama: Did the Knave of Hearts Really Stea...

Was it really Jack, the Knave of Hearts, who purloined the pastry? There were other knaves -- in fact a whole gang of knaves called the ‘Knives’ -- who might have nicked the tarts. Or was it the Queen of...

Bill Barol on citizen journalism: journalism it aint

A HuffPo blogger-journalist Bill Barol lashes out at the recent LAT piece on Mayhill Fowler, another HuffPo blogger with "On the Bus" project.  Fowler was the 'citizen journalist' who got the Bill Clinton expletives on the Todd Purdum piece.Barol looks none-too-kindly on...

Michael Lacey 'N-Word' Speech Video Online

This evening, I learned about an incident involving Michael Lacey, executive editor of the Village Voice, and his recent use of the “N” word during a Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet in Phoenix.In researching the incident further, I learned that...

News Media and Business: A First-Hand Experience

"Canada Must Be A Just Society", Pierre Elliott Trudeau I couldn’t believe that my business was already ruined before I’d even started. I was still going to have to pay for the merchandise en route bought on...

Front Page: LA Times Publishes Weak Hit Piece On Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson is running for president, but the Los Angeles Times and reporter Joe Mathews do their best to shrink Thompson down to size or smaller with a front page story “bio” that runs more like an opinion...

Political activist afraid of Christian intervention into the military

Michael L. Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has an opinion piece published in the L.A. Times today in which his fear of Christians infiltrating the military is the central theme. My analysis of his story, Not so fast, Christian...

LA Times Loses It Over Google

Apparently, Free Speech gets in the way of real journalism. When will those that dispense the news, show some respect to those who consume it? It's when news bureaus like this take to petty issues that the real integrity of 'News' must be questioned. Imagine a place where...

LOS ANGELES TIMES MANAGING EDITOR RESIGNS - DOUGLAS FRANTZ

Los Angeles Times Managing Editor Douglas Frantz has resigned from his post as Managing Editor as of 6.28.2007. The official statement by the Los Angeles Times: “LOS ANGELES, CA, June 28, 2006 – Douglas Frantz, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times has decided to...

Los Angeles Times: BrooWaha and Citizen journalism

Across the country "citizen newspapers" are springing up, full of promise, energy and atrocious spelling errors. They're largely written by unpaid, untrained and unedited citizen reporters, who say they "commit acts of journalism" more for kicks than out of a sense of...

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