Weekly archive
December 23 - December 29, 2007
Thursday, Dec. 27
Josh Rawitch of the Dodgers gets personal in his blog farewell to Stu Nahan.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Remember when the City Council got around that whole referendum thing by, wink wink, making a few changes to its living wage policy for the LAX-area hotels? It worked. A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
KCRW and KPCC have jumped on this morning's assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Warren Olney's shows, "To the Point" and "Which Way, L.A.?," are both devoting extensive time to the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
KNBC Channel 4 leads the TV stations with six Golden Mikes from the Radio Television News Association, including best newscast writing, documentary ("On the Verge") and investigative story (for its... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Dec. 26
The Kings held a moment of silence before tonight's game to honor Stu Nahan, the former sportscaster at channels 4, 5 and 7 and sports talk host on KABC and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Dec. 24
Irv Letofsky, former editor of the L.A. Times Sunday Calendar section and a critic for the Hollywood Reporter, died Sunday of liver cancer at age 76. From the Reporter obituary:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Still catching up from my unintended, and unwanted, time away from the keyboard... Adam Carolla stays, Danny Bonaduce goes. The Virgin Megastore at Sunset and Crescent Heights will close at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sunday, Dec. 23
Valley history buffs were aghast to learn last week that the first hangar built at what's now called Van Nuys Airport was in the process of being torn down. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Tribune Company takeover by Sam Zell prompted Times media columnist Tim Rutten to pronounce the seven years of Tribune ownership at the LAT "a disastrous journalistic experiment...there's no need... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
That was quite a front-page correction the L.A. Times ran on Thursday, below the fold under the headline 'Steroid affidavit unsealed.' The Times acknowledged that its own 2006 story implicating... $MTEntryExcerpt$>