Weekly archive
September 7 - September 13, 2003
Saturday, Sep. 13
The L.A. Times reports that rat traps are set up all over the new Disney Hall auditorium, in advance of next month's opening. No one was available Friday evening to...
Cathy Seipp's media column in CityBeat this week is about her pal Mickey Kaus and his runaway success as a blogger (gets paid by Slate, draws 20,000 hits a day,...
Friday, Sep. 12
The Breeze reports that FBI agents are conducting interviews about payments for land purchases needed to expand LAX. Reporters David Zahniser and Ian Gregor say the investigation centers on money...
The new L.A. Times Poll has the recall itself still barely ahead (50-47 with 3% sampling error), Bustmante sinking like a leaky balloon (high negatives, under 50% Latino support), Arnold...
Thursday, Sep. 11
Just how serious will Emmis Communications, owners of Los Angeles magazine and Power 106 radio here, be in the crowded derby to acquire New York magazine? Steve Cohn, editor-in-chief of...
Bernard Weinraub in the NYT covers the Huffington fundraiser in Holmby Hills Tuesday night: ...the liberal-come-lately newspaper columnist who has frequently opened her Brentwood home to stars, talent agents, producers...
Just yesterday, the New York Post and Variety ran planted stories about disgraced New York Timeser Jayson Blair getting a book deal at New Millennium Entertainment here. Today, the NYT...
Schwarzenegger said on The O'Reilly Factor that the L.A. Times is biased against him, with one of his points that they put more stories about his rivals on Page One...
Wednesday, Sep. 10
As we've noted before, Leslie Epstein's Los Angeles novel San Remo has gotten nice treatment in the New York Times. He had to have been nervous about it though, the...
The humiliated ex-journalist was turned down by New York publishers but struck a deal with New Millennium, the Beverly Hills publishing house run by Michael Viner and Daborah Raffin, says...
Tim Rutten thinks that Schwarzenegger's use of AM talk radio contributes to his gender gap with women (along with violent movies and the Oui article). Rutten's LAT column today lets...
Robert Gelfand reports in The American Reporter on a quiet little 3-way newspaper war brewing in San Pedro. On one side is a new advertising supplement by Dean Singleton's Long...
Richard Karpel, the head of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, takes issue with Matt Welch's piece on blogs in Columbia Journalism Review (recommended by me here). He doesn't object to...
The mailing list for Distinction, the magazine from Angeles Publications -- which is the Los Angeles Times ad department in disguise -- is supposed to be the 50,000 highest-income households...
Tuesday, Sep. 9
The L.A. Times today debuted its weekly section on outdoor life. A section like Outdoors has been pondered for years as a natural for Southern California. I like the idea...
Brian Linse, who blogs at Aint No Bad Dude, has up a nice tribute to his friend Warren Zevon....
Local blog Shock and Awe recently took a fair shot at Snopes.com (the Urban Legends Reference Pages, also SoCal based) for a screed against Michael Moore over his remarks about...
The Democratic Leadership Council in Washington has reached out to tap L.A. city councilwoman Wendy Greuel as the group's "New Democrat of the Week." Here they explain why....
Those enjoying the Frank Gehry-Sam Hall Kaplan spat over Disney Hall may want to hear Kaplan's "City Observed" commentary tomorrow (Wednesday) on KCRW. In the advance transcript, Kaplan reviews the...
Peter Ueberroth has cancelled his public appearances and called a 1 p.m. news conference, apparently to make his exit from the recall race, AP reports. (Via Drudge Report) update 1:30...
Ad Age says that Emmis Communications, publisher of Los Angeles and other city and regional magazines, including Texas Monthly, has had talks about buying New York. Neither Emmis nor Primedia,...
A couple of South Bay papers, the Beach Reporter and the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, have been bought by Copley Press, owner of the Daily Breeze. Both of the smaller...
Round two of the independent recall polls begins with the Field Poll today showing Davis behind 55%-40%. Bustamante is still ahead of Schwarzenegger 30%-25%, with McClintock at 13%. Soon I...
Monday, Sep. 8
Ron Fineman chastises Channel 5's "News at Ten" for making a story of co-anchor Mindy Burbano's wedding shower. But wait, it gets worse. In the lead to this "story," [co-anchor]...
SoCal blogger Lonewacko is driving across country and filing brief reports with photos. Over the weekend he posted a picture from the highest point in Kansas, Mt. Sunflower. In actual...
The Los Angeles-based Theme Park Insider is all over the latest Disneyland accident in which a man was killed on the Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster. Clearly, a dangerous pattern...
Catching up on last week: Romenesko's letters page has a couple of entries with opposing opinions on the L.A. Times liberal bias memo, pegged to the article by R. J....
The Fairfax High dropout narrated Los Angeles in his music. He revealed last year that he had inoperable lung cancer, then completed a new album, The Wind, before he died...
For the mediabistro.com party tonight at Santo Coyote on Melrose, the invitations carry a stern proviso: Sorry, no PR/Marketing folks or interns/students. Attendance is limited. ALL guests must be pre-approved....
I mentioned on Friday how urban design critic Sam Hall Kaplan gave Disney Hall a less than fawning review. Turns out that Frank Gehry was displeased. The architect braced Kaplan...
A sample of the winners announced on Saturday night: Regularly Scheduled Daily News: Daytime "Good Day LA" (Fox11) Regularly Scheduled Daily News: 0-35 Minutes "Channel 4 News at 11pm" (NBC4)...
Ian Gregor in the Daily Breeze says it's the Texaco station on Century Boulevard at LAX, the last place to fill up before returning a rental car. "They don’t care...
Not the Schwarzeneggers, though Carla Hall writes in the L.A. Times today on Maria Shriver's more prominent role in THAT campaign. No, the family to watch may be the Rubalcavas....
Literary journalism of the sort practiced by Pulitzer winner Barry Siegel of the L.A. Times national staff has its fans and detractors. Count the UC Irvine School of Humanities (and...
Filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd is the usual go-to guy for journalists who dust off the "lonely Republicans of Hollywood" story. He also wrote and produced the Showtime docudrama "DC 9/11: Time...
Now that Matt Miller has his own book out, the moderate moderator of KCRW's politics show Left, Right & Center is being a guest and his colleagues are playing the...
