Weekly archive
June 1 - June 7, 2003
Saturday, Jun. 7
David Shaw argues in a Sunday L.A. Times column that the fabrications of journalists such as Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass were an inevitable result of the New Journalism trend...
Friday, Jun. 6
Jim Romenesko, king of the media bloggers, is modest about his role in the Howell Raines downfall: "I just post the stories." For this feature on him in Saturday's L.A....
LA Weekly won a pair of Alternative Newsweekly Awards announced Friday, for arts criticism by John Powers and photography by Max S. Gerber. The Weekly also picked up an honorable...
The former L.A. Times Metro columnist, city editor and longtime politics writer Bill Boyarsky has begun contributing a monthly "City Voice" column to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles....
Editor and Publisher, the newspaper trade publication, has released its annual feature on 10 That Do It Right and includes no papers from California. The criteria: "We are not honoring...
The Wall Street Journal mentions L.A. Times editor John Carroll as a possible longshot for the top job at the New York Times, then shoots it down: "Having an editor...
Tim Rutten says the Internet was crucial in the takedown of New York Times editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd. It was, he writes in today's Regarding Media...
Thursday, Jun. 5
Nobody as yet seems to have good information that L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet is on the short list for New York Times executive editor, but he makes the...
"'Bruce Almighty' is an extremely funny movie," writes Sister Rose Pacatte in The Tidings, the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Far from being offended by Jim Carrey's...
There's no ignoring the sound made by the motors on the Goodyear blimp. They whine like a super-sized insect, and whenever the unmistakable buzzing floats over our hill beside Santa...
The Los Angeles Press Club plans to give its second Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism to Michael Kelly, the editor at large for Atlantic Monthly and...
Executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd both resign in the continuing fallout from the Jayson Blair scandal. Jim Romenseko has a good array of links. The former...
Wednesday, Jun. 4
In response to the John Carroll memo on L.A. Times liberal bias, Marc Cooper of the LA Weekly conjures up a missive to Carroll from the desk of White House...
Steven Zeitchik of Publisher's Weekly covers the party scene and also wraps up the business end of the weekend's BookExpo America held in L.A. It doesn't sound like it was...
William Dean Singleton, owner of the L.A. Daily News, the Long Beach Press-Telegram and a clutch of other SoCal newspapers, is the first media mogul to move on expansion under...
L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet should be considered a contender for the top job at the New York Times if Howell Raines does not survive the scandals rocking his...
Virginia Postrel, herself a blogger and author, chides the online writers who have been piling on the New York Times knee-jerk style and addresses one of the essential differences between...
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout on Sunday night drew the highest ratings ever for the FX cable network, the Hollywood Reporter says. Here's the earlier post on L.A. Observed....
Freddie Blassie entertained Los Angeles as the most hated villain of local "professional" wrestling in the 1950s and 60s, when wrestling and roller derby were first hugely popular on television....
Tuesday, Jun. 3
Some kind of fees or subscriptions are in the future at the Los Angeles Times website, Tribune Interactive boss David Hiller says. He tells American Journalism Review: "I think that...
KCET's Life and Times has author Calvin Trillin on tonight (channel 28 at 7 and 11 p.m.) along with a report on the Wiseburn School District, near El Segundo, which...
The Pacifica radio station at 90.7 FM that has been on the L.A. scene since 1959 is throwing an open house and barbecue this Saturday to celebrate completion of a...
Newsweek's June 9 issue offers up a script for a campaign ad should Arnold Schwarzenegger need one, and also considers the personal pros and cons of his running for governor....
Monday, Jun. 2
One of the most multi-faceted scribes in the city -- two LAT columns, TV and radio commentaries, panels, bookstore appearances, VP of the Los Angeles Press Club -- answers questions...
The Republican majority on the FCC voted as expected to ease federal rules on media ownership. In Los Angeles this means that the Tribune Co. can retain both the L.A....
L.A. Times national correspondent Scott Gold receives some nice praise from Editor John Carroll in the aftermath of Carroll's memo critiquing a recent Gold story on abortion for displaying liberal...
Michael Viner, who published the book by O.J. trial figure Faye Resnick and the memoir by former Heidi Fleiss call girls called You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again,...
Ken Layne, who is a co-founder with Matt Welch of LA Examiner.com and is involved with Dick Riordan's promised weekly, says on his blog that it won't really be a...
Sunday, Jun. 1
Jonathan Kirsch peruses the newest anthology of L.A. literature, The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles, and writes in the L.A. Times Book Review that editors Scott Timberg and Dana...
CaliforniaAuthors.com is filing occasional reports from the BookExpo downtown. So is Roger L. Simon on his blog, here and here. C-SPAN2 is also devoting most of the weekend to the...
The teenage busboy photographed as he cradled the bloodied head of Robert F. Kennedy on the pantry floor at the Ambssador Hotel on June 5, 1968, is now a 53-year-old...
In advance of this week's FCC vote on media ownership, L.A. Times business writer James Bates remembers when Los Angeles TV channels stopped at 2-4-5-7-9-11-13 and the only Dodgers games...
The Daily News editorial page gets off a good jab at the title given the new city office building in Van Nuys: "Not since the days of the Soviet Empire...
That frightening morning in 1996 when the LAPD came under attack from bank robbers with assault rifles and body armor in North Hollywood produced incredibly raw live TV. Now it's...
