http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/latimes/ en-us Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:39:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041268/posts I read an article in the LA Times today about the difficulty of Washington, D.C. residents obtaining firearms (Guns still elusive for D.C. residents). There were at least two major errors in the story, which is not unusual for an LA Times article that has anything to do with guns. First, the article claims that there is a Federal law that prevents the transportation of guns across state lines “the federal ban on the transport of firearms across state lines”. There is no such ban. In fact, federal law *guarantees* that people can transport firearms across state lines, in the... Marktwain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041268/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:39:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038094/posts Villaraigosa has an impressive list of Hollywood supporters: Casey Wasserman (grandson of the legendary Lew Wasserman); Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger; HBO Films President Colin Callender; media mogul Haim Saban; Laker great Magic Johnson; 20th Century Fox Co-Chairman Jim Gianopulos; director-producer Jerry Zucker; syndicated television mogul Michael King; writer-TV producers Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason;superagent Patrick Whitesell; DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg; William Morris head Jim Wiatt; News Corp. President Peter Chernin. So far no other major candidate has declared, but there other people thinking about running -- namely billionaire mall magnate Rick Caruso. When reached by cellphone this... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038094/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:22:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032776/posts "The Los Angeles Times (LAT) has released a major new national poll that includes oversamples in three battleground states, Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin. And it provides little evidence that the GOP's fervently-desired "Reagan death bounce" is materializing; in fact, Kerry's 7 point lead among RVs in this poll (51-44), conducted entirely since Reagan's death, is actually larger than Kerry's lead in a recent Gallup poll that only partially overlapped the period since Reagan's death." Ruy Teixeira's Donkey Rising http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032776/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029336/posts On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb set by James McNamara, an operative of the Iron Workers union, then embroiled in a ferocious dispute with the Los Angeles Times, blew up the Times building, killing 21 pressmen. McNamara was arrested the following April, convicted and later sentenced to life in prison. He died in San Quentin in 1941. The question for today is: Would a similar sentence be appropriate for Sam Zell? Zell, for those of you fortunate enough not to follow news of the newspaper business, is the Chicago real estate magnate who last year purchased the Tribune Co., which... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029336/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022435/posts ...Sebelius would help the Illinois senator in several obvious ways -- she's a woman, a Catholic and a Democratic officeholder who has successfully reached across the aisle to make strong Republican allies in a deeply red state. When she was selected to give her response to President Bush's State of the Union address last January, she began: "In this time, normally reserved for the partisan response, I hope to offer you something more: An American response." Sebelius, in other words, is a Democratic politician who not only talks the Obama talk but walks the Obama walk. Recently, however, she has... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022435/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 14:04:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021212/posts Not only is Obama's middle name Hussein that of the prophet Mohammad's grandson (revered as the saint of all saints by Iran's majority Shiites) but the candidate's foreign policy seems light years away from the saber-rattling of President Bush and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. ...what Iranian elites say about Obama. I should say, he is a phenomenon, based on what he has said so far, Sadegh Kharazzi, a former Iranian diplomat squarely in the reformist camp now out of power, said. Unless he is drawn into traditional Democratic Party ways, his election as a president will be... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021212/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 22:56:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012447/posts The Titanic has hit an iceberg and is sinking. Not to worry, just paint the lifeboats with a new color scheme and things will improve. As ridiculous as that sounds, it is not much different than the proposal of the Tribune Company Chief Innovation Officer, Lee Abrams, who proposed changing the color of Los Angeles Times vans: Being too close to it. LAT has about 20 vans...but they're all Black? Hmmm. Maybe they should be painted in LAT colors. There ARE more than a few commuters driving around down there. Apparently Abrams thinks basic black is not exciting enough but... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012447/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 14:06:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005818/posts John McCain knows a lot less about foreign policy than he'd have us believe.This, anyway, is the impression that's been growing in recent weeks, not least because of much-discussed New York Times story published recently that painted a growing divide in his campaign between "pragmatists" and "neoconservatives." The candidate reportedly lacks firm ideological convictions, so battle for "McCain's soul" may be in the offing. And it's true: Despite his decades of supposed national security experience, it's difficult to stick an "-ism" on the tail of McCain's approach to world affairs. He's been one of the president's most fervent backers on... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005818/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:21:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998891/posts Hiller to LAT: Recession, baby Kevin Roderick • Bio • Email In one of his occasional long messages to the staff, Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller says "we are smack in the middle of a recession on top of the dramatic changes the newspaper business is going through." For the whole first quarter, advertising revenue was down double-digits from last year, and our cash flow is down even more. The results for March alone were even more severe, with revenue and cash flow declines dropping to levels not seen for decades." Emphasis mine. So the Times continues to do... LA Observed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998891/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:42:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992648/posts A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday. snip Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements came after The Times took withering criticism for the Shakur article, which appeared on latimes.com last week and two days later in the paper's Calendar section. The criticism came first from The Smoking Gun website, which said the newspaper had been the victim of... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992648/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:57:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992087/posts Looks like all those superior layers and layers and layers of fact-checkers at the LA Times were sleep-deprived or something. Geez, Louise (hat tip: Patterico, who writes “This is very, very big. We’ll be hearing much more about this, you can count on that.”): Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992087/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:44:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990462/posts The L.A. Times saves space on its Sunday front page for a hit piece on John McCain. The main thrust of the piece is to say, in essence, “Nyaah, nyaah, John McCain said that Iraq would be a cakewalk, but it wasnÂ’t.” A little context would be nice. Plenty of liberals were surprised at how easily we overran Baghdad and kicked Saddam out of power. Indeed, plenty of liberals — including Bill Richardson, a strong contender for the second spot on ObamaÂ’s ticket — were surprised at how quickly we overran Kabul. So yeah, like most of the rest of... Patterico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990462/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:04:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986836/posts The Los Angeles Times has a front-page story that suggests the federal government is really cracking down on people who illegally re-enter the country. However, the paper doesn’t tell you that the big “crackdown” is actually a joke. Here is the story’s lede: Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were previously deported and then reentered the country illegally — a crime that now makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Times review of U.S. attorney’s statistics shows. The surge in prosecutions reflects the federal government’s push in recent years to... Patterico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986836/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985002/posts Members of the radical group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are busy preparing to host a new “war crimes” conference next month in Washington. The event, billed as Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan, takes its title from the IVAW’s namesake and mentor, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). However, information has now come to light that profoundly undermines the VVAW’s original atrocity claims. Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985002/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984442/posts Roderick reports: The Los Angeles Times has lost more subscribers in the past four years than any U.S. newspaper and it isn’t even close. Editor & Publisher compared 2007 circulation to 2003 and found the LAT had shed 201,000 readers. Only one other paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, was in six figures with 147,000 lost buyers. Meanwhile, you know they’re busy mocking Sam Zell for saying they have to find a way to sell papers.P.S. I forgot to mention: Henry Weinstein took the buyout. (H/t Scott Kaufer.) So long! Patterico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984442/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977025/posts The Los Angeles Times has conducted a national poll for the presidency, and the results show John McCain leading both Democratic presidential contenders despite all of the attention on their primaries. Experience and wartime judgment carry McCain to leads over both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, although within the margin of error for the latter: As he emerges from a sometimes- bitter primary campaign, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain poses a stiff challenge to either of his potential Democratic opponents in the general election, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. The findings underscore the difficulties ahead for... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977025/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:04:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975111/posts If the election were today, who would you vote for? The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975111/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:43:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975001/posts Earlier today, I linked to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and its editor's essay about the journalistic defects in the New York Times hit piece on John McCain. David McCumber chose not to run the Times' article in the Seattle P-I despite having the rights to it on syndication. Andrew Malcom at the Los Angeles Times reports that another paper also killed the story -- despite being owned by the New York Times: But one interesting aspect of this combined political and professional controversy went widely unnoticed. The Boston Globe, which is wholly owned by the New York Times, chose not to... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975001/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:37:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974518/posts Do the editors of the L.A. Times realize that illegal immigration is, you know, illegal? I wonder when I read editorials like this: It’s getting ugly out there for illegal immigrants. States and cities are cracking down with harsh new ordinances, and the courts are upholding them. Not only are deportations at record highs, but immigrants are being detained at places previously understood to be off-limits, such as schools. The debate about illegal immigration, labor, social justice and international trade has devolved into open season on illegal immigrants.Arizona penalizes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, suspending their business license for... Patterico's Pontifications http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974518/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974160/posts It's getting ugly out there for illegal immigrants. States and cities are cracking down with harsh new ordinances, and the courts are upholding them. Not only are deportations at record highs, but immigrants are being detained at places previously understood to be off-limits, such as schools. The debate about illegal immigration, labor, social justice and international trade has devolved into open season on illegal immigrants. Arizona penalizes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, suspending their business license for 10 days for the first offense, revoking it permanently for the second. Valley Park in Missouri fines businesses that hire illegal immigrants.... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974160/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972904/posts The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,000 terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalk, bearing names from eminent to obscure (Strongheart the dog, anyone?). The walk attracts tourists, but most locals step over — make that drive past — without noticing. When The Los Angeles Times received a star last year, it was met at the paper with shrugs, eye rolls and grumbling about money ill-spent (the local chamber of commerce charges $25,000 for the honor). But it meant something to the new publisher, David D. Hiller, who enthusiastically attended the installation and told editors that the newspaper... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972904/posts#comment Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:49:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972746/posts The Los Angeles Times puts itself in the unusual position of scolding John McCain over his opposition to torture, claiming that he betrayed his principles in voting against the legislation sponsored by Dianne Feinstein in the Senate last week. The editorial says McCain should be ashamed for his vote and accuses him of abetting torture, when McCain has good reason to believe that the Feinstein bill does more damage than benefit: One of John McCain's most admirable traits has been his eloquent opposition to the use of torture against suspected terrorists. During a Republican presidential debate last year in which... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972746/posts#comment Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:59:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970772/posts Russ Stanton, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times who has been in charge of invigorating its website, on Thursday became the newspaper's 14th editor. Stanton will lead a staff chafing from the recent exit of its third editor in less than three years and worried about job cuts. Former Editor James O'Shea and Publisher David D. Hiller parted ways Jan. 21 after a disagreement over whether the editorial budget should shrink. The 49-year-old Stanton referred to "the high turnover rate in this job" in remarks he delivered in the paper's third-floor newsroom in downtown Los Angeles. "Like most... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970772/posts#comment Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:46:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969867/posts Tribune Co. plans to cut 400 to 500 jobs companywide, including about 100 each at the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, the company announced Wednesday. The cuts, which amount to about 2 percent of the Chicago-based media company's workforce, are a necessary response to a weak economy and "significant declines in advertising volume at our newspapers," Tribune Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Zell said in a memo to employees. "Unfortunately, I can't turn this ship from its course of the past 10 years within just a few months," said Zell, who took the company private in an... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969867/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:02:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969854/posts Tribune Co., struggling with declining revenue, today said it would cut staff by 400 to 500 people companywide, or around 2% of the Chicago-based media company's workforce. At the Los Angeles Times, 100 to 150 jobs will be eliminated, 40 to 50 in the newsroom, through a combination of attrition, voluntary buyouts and, if necessary, layoffs, Publisher David D. Hiller said in an interview this morning. Tribune Chief Executive Sam Zell announced the news this morning in one of his frequent "Talk to Sam" e-mails to all employees. The job cuts are focused on the corporate staff and the company's... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969854/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:48:06 GMT