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August 30, 2008
Bill Boyarsky, posting dispatches from the Democratic gathering at Truthdig.com, concluded that this convention marked a welcome end to big media dominance of political reporting.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
La Opinión columnist Pilar Marrero relaunched her politics blog in Spanish for the Democratic convention, and it sounds like she will keep it going on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 29, 2008
But my LA Observed spot today on KCRW talking about Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden is, at its essence, about Los Angeles traffic. Here's a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
As Mark picked up earlier at LA Biz Observed, prominent lawyer Terry Christensen and former private eye Anthony Pellicano were convicted today of conspiring to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Houston bureau chief Miguel Bustillo jumps to the Wall Street Journal. He is a product of the LAT's once-lauded minority intern program. His exit email... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Times editorial writer Robert Greene, who authors most of the editorials about City Hall and local politics, was impressed by Gavin Newsom's talk to the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In the third to last installment of the LA Observed Script Project, Mayor Russell Napolitano is on his way to be executed with the beautiful... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
New York Times calls the choice of the anti-abortion, conservative Christian with less than two years in office (she is 44) a "roll of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Scott Martelle has been busily covering the presidential election for the Los Angeles Times, including many posts to the Top of the Ticket blog. But... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 28, 2008
A 1941 Richard Neutra house was recently moved from Brentwood to Angelino Heights. Photographer Brian Thomas Jones has a slide show up at LATimes.com. Though... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Times says it omitted race from the descriptions of three Melrose-area serial robbers by mistake. From the Reader's Representative blog: At least a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A serial murderer is back killing in Los Angeles, says the LAPD. LA Weekly Antonio Villaraigosa and Gavin Newsom go head to head this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Los Angeles County ordinance making it a misdemeanor for taco trucks to stay parked for longer than an hour was tossed out Wednesday by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 27, 2008
This won't qualify as an epic collapse because the Dodgers weren't that good to begin with, but this el foldo might be etched into the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Los Angeles magazine's September issue includes a round-up of the area's best high schools (not on line) and a book review-cum-profile of the city's most... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Beth Barrett was a mainstay of the Ron Kaye era at the Daily News — and before — digging into city and county spending and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Variety Managing Editor Ted Johnson blogs at Wilshire and Washington that one of the men arrested in what was first thought to be a plot... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Technical difficulties — as in no Internet connection — at home this morning. So, better late than never... LAT's James Rainey gets up close and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Those fears within the Tribune about Sam Zell's radio-izing of the company look even more justified now. A day after the Los Angeles Times hired... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
They've got Joe Torre blogging about his new life in L.A., and posing for silly pictures to hold up web spots for State Farm Insurance.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 26, 2008
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been making the rounds and got some face time on MSNBC this afternoon — outside of prime time —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
An LA Observed informant who has been at most Hollywood Bowl events this summer reports that Keanu Reeves showed up early on his motorcycle for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This time it is City Editor Judi Erickson who decided the grass is greener outside the Dean Singleton newspaper universe. Memo from Editor Carolina Garcia:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
KCRW's convention package includes online video shot by producers for Warren Olney's show in Denver. They have found an Obama lookalike, protesters and "dancing Democrats,"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Investigative reporter T. Christian Miller is joining the Los Angeles Times exodus to ProPublica, the non-profit that hired Pulitzer winners Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Publisher Eddy Hartenstein had made his first move, adding a new senior executive and "chief revenue officer" at the Los Angeles Times — and grabbing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bil Boyarsky is covering the Democratic convention scene for Truthdig and his featured story today is about the abortion issue at the Interfaith Gathering held... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Times posted canned stories on other Obama VP selections by accident, and of course they got out. LAT John McCain raised money... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 25, 2008
Taking a little summer respite. Mark Lacter has morning headlines and more at LA Biz Observed, Adrienne Crew checks in on the new Holocaust photos... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sometime this fall the Los Angeles Times will unveil wholesale changes that SoCal readers may or may not want. The reinvention of the Times as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This was the weekend that Sandra Tsing Loh's latest book, "Mother on Fire," got reviewed in the New York Times and her hometown Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I figured it would get harder to recruit submissions for the LA Observed Script Project as the story got longer and more layered, but producer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On an average day, USC theater students Peter Vack and Troian Bellisario bring in $100 performing lines from "Romeo and Juliet" on the New York... $MTEntryExcerpt$>