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Navy told to turn off its sonar for the whales, Marc Cooper reacts to the KPFK story and more.
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Sonar use barred off coast
Judge agrees with the National Resources Defense Council and California Coastal Commission that the Navy's use of sound has been hurting the whales. LAT
Russian-Armenian crime ring broken
Organized crime group hit truck yards all over SoCal from the Valley. DN
Marc Cooper on KPFK
The former host reacts to the news of yet another staff rebellion that we posted last night:
The sad truth, as I've written a few too many times already, is that the current crew that runs the network and the local station are a small group of zealots who make FEMA look like FedEx. They took over the network in late 2001 after a successful campaign of harassment and intimidation of the prior management who couldn't take any more simply stepped down....
I don't want to be too self-righteous or self-serving here, but I quit the station (as a paid daily afternoon host) exactly one day after the ding-a-ling crew took over and fired [Mark] Schubb. It was immediately apparent what they were about and I had no intention of continuing my association with them, nor raising money for them...Everyday since then has been a Good Day for me -- the farther away I am from that madness, the better as our worst predictions immediately came to pass. The quality of the programming -- intellectually and technically--went into immediate freefall.
Register layoffs a slow torture
Doing it over several days seems especially brutal in the newsroom. Michele Himmelberg got the tap on the shoulder. Today's LAT story and last week's memo from the editor.
NYT may kill TimesSelect
Decision to free up the columnists has been made but not announced, says the New York Post.
Noted
Another reason to ban honorary street namings
They confuse tourists and map makers. LAT
