AltWeeklies Wire
Trouble at the L.A. Timesnew
An editor kills a Page One story on Armenian genocide, and charges of bias fly.
L.A. Weekly |
Daniel Hernandez |
04-27-2007 |
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Covering the Bossesnew
Is the L.A. Times' media reporter on a tight leash or free to cover the paper's purchase?
L.A. Weekly |
Luke Y. Thompson |
02-20-2007 |
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Between a Rock and a Soft Placenew
L.A. Times' coverage of Skid Row crackdown is early valentine to cops.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
02-02-2007 |
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Shades of Brownnew
The L.A. Times has a Latino problem.
L.A. Weekly |
Daniel Hernandez |
12-22-2006 |
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Dean of Sycophantsnew
Journalism can stop characterizing the Los Angeles Times editor as “Dean of Arc” and start referring to him as he really is: “Cover-Your-Backside Baquet.”
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
10-12-2006 |
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Baquet's Billionaire Boys' Clubnew
Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the L.A. Times' integrity?
L.A. Weekly |
Nikke Finke |
09-28-2006 |
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The Mouse Who Whorednew
Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-14-2006 |
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Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allennew
Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikke Finke |
07-06-2006 |
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The Piolin Factornew
Eddie Sotelo, the nation's No. 1 Spanish-language morning radio-show host, can take much of the credit for last weekend's turnout of 500,000 protesters in L.A.
L.A. Weekly |
Ben Quinones |
03-30-2006 |
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Gag Me With a Grapenew
United Farm Workers moves to silence its media critics.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
02-09-2006 |
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Media Moguls, Not Looters, Killed Media's Truth Tellersnew
For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, but once the crisis point had passed, most broadcasters went back to business as usual.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-16-2005 |
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The Michael Kinsley Experiment Ends at L.A. Timesnew
Michael Kinsley said he'd done a pretty good job of editing the Los Angeles Times editorial pages but on what planet? He's actually done a pretty horrible job that’s proved disastrous both to his persona and the paper’s prestige.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
07-29-2005 |
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Does Woody Allen Just Write Like Rick Moranis?new
There are startling similarities between the Disney parody written by Woody Allen in the December 13 issue of The New Yorker and a 1999 piece authored by comedian Rick Moranis and novelist Howard Kaminsky that ran in the Los Angeles Sunday Times.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
12-14-2004 |
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Mainstream Media Still Can't Cover the Campaignsnew
The major news outfits do a piss-poor job of evaluating the rhetoric and claims of candidates, and the media is generally reluctant to vigorously truth-test the assertions made by candidates (or presidents).
L.A. Weekly |
David Corn |
10-18-2004 |
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