Weekly archive
March 25 - March 31, 2007
Friday, Mar. 30
Washington Post columnist and Slate contributor Richard Cohen makes a stab at some Grazergate humor. Didn't work for me, but your mileage might vary. Excerpt of "One Man's Desperate Attempt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thank you to everyone who emailed while I was off. It was deeply moving and helpful to my family to receive such good thoughts from so many. Now here's today's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Mar. 27
The News & Chatter side of LA Observed plans to stand down for a day or so to mark the passing of my father. Robert Roderick lived to 89 and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Come on inside for a first look at the day...... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Mar. 26
Yeah, the Times really got its money's worth out of that innovation. "We have concluded we will not be moving forward with the program," the paper's official statement says. Gee,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Student journalists at Occidental College dug through old literary magazines to find two poems that Sen. Barack Obama published in 1982. "What better than the poetry of a 19-year-old college... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
An L.A. Times press release announces several reductions in the value of what the paper give its dwindling readership — oops, I mean "editorial changes designed to meet the evolving... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This afternoon at 2 pm Patt Morrison will have on the German photographer behind You-Are-Here.com, the best website of Los Angeles architectural photos. He blogs about his recent trip to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tim Swanson, who has been the west coast bureau chief of Premiere and a writer for Variety, will blog about "the worlds of film, music, television, and the digital industry"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Times has quietly eliminated some of the typographic cacophony that erupted on the front page in October. Gone are the skinny, sans-serif headlines, the stacked decks of secondary headlines... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Lots of news to begin the week, sliced and diced after the jump.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In the new issue out now, Joe Domanick examines the case against Phil Spector while Strawberry Saroyan sizes up the career of fired book publisher Judith Regan. There are also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I received a whole bunch of thoughtful email last week on the Grazergate episode. Submissions are over at We Get Email from, among others, a former editorial writer at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sunday, Mar. 25
Last week's most noteworthy posts, subjectively speaking. Well, there was that business with the Times and the editor who gave a page to the movie producer whose publicist he dated... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In Andrés Martinez's email to LA Observed after he quit Thursday as Times editorial page honcho, he implied that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was on the list of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Allison Silver, now a producer on "The Charlie Rose Show," edited the Sunday Opinion section in the L.A. Times for ten years before moving over in 2000 to be an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
We told you last week that radio personality April Winchell had blown Bill O'Reilly's cover as a man of the people by exposing his rant about croissants that were not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tim Cavanaugh, the web editor who joined the Times Opinion staff recently from Reason magazine, reacted to the resignation of his boss, Andrés Martinez, by posting a personal message on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>