Comments on: L.A. Times Corrects Record on Roberts — But with an Important Omission

By: Independent Sources

Independent Sources — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:09:15 +0000

LAT Watch: Shooting Fish in a Barrel

It hadn’t occured to me exactly how many Los Angeles Times critiques Independent Sources had run during the past few days until I sat down to do a summary for Calblog.

LAT Columnist Prefers Presidents that are Fat and Undis…

By: Noel

Noel — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:17:14 +0000

One can almost hear Chuckie Schumer now: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Federalist Society?”

For advocating the Actual Constitution, the Federalists are whispered to be a deranged cult of legal snake-handlers–yet Ruth Bader-Ginsburg’s ACLU supports terrorist & pedophile ‘rights’, somehow proving her ‘mainstream’ cred.

“Have you no sense of decency, senators? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

By: Aakash

Aakash — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 06:26:14 +0000

I didn't include this in the several updates to my latest blog entry, on Roberts, but I wanted to share - While I saw last night that Judge Roberts was not, in fact, a member of the Federalist Society (via Volokh), I also saw that he has been associated with a couple of left-of-center organizations (via Howard Phillips - 2nd entry there). Troubling...

By: David L. Parrish

David L. Parrish — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:36:40 +0000

Who is reading the LA Times anymore any way? What a piece of dog do.

By: Nels Nelson

Nels Nelson — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:17:27 +0000

Thanks.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:19:31 +0000

Patterico, if you could, please remove that porn link or the entire post. I’m sure that others, like me, will click on the link without first reading the subsequent posts.

Done. See above.

By: ras

ras — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:12:14 +0000

looks like the senior execs of the LAT are deliberately driving down their circulation in order to force a sale where they can themselves scoop up the paper at a bargain-bin price.

These guys are “fixtures” in the Vulture Cap scene, you know.

By: Nels Nelson

Nels Nelson — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:40:50 +0000

Patterico, if you could, please remove that porn link or the entire post. I’m sure that others, like me, will click on the link without first reading the subsequent posts.

By: Independent Sources

Independent Sources — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:57:21 +0000

LAT Says I’m Sorry You Think I Said Something Wrong

Patterico notes the LAT practice of burying their corrections in places where readers of the original stories won’t necessarily see them:

“… The Times runs corrections of news stories on Page A2, where nobody sees them, the …

By: Howard Veit

Howard Veit — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:42:37 +0000

I love Not Safe for Work sites, keep on keeping on.

But getting back to the LAT; the new guy will fix everything. Oh, you say the new guy was the old managing editor? And the old managing editor came from the NYT? And that all the old NYTers he brought into the company have fled? Snore.

On a factual note: the word is that the Trib is negotiating to sell the Los Angeles Times. The hang up is the Times periferal properties which are actually more valuable than the paper, which by itself is a loser. We are seeing a serious media meltdown in a lot of cities because nobody is reading anything anymore. Were it not for its TV station holdings the Tibune Company would be broke too. So would the New York Times.

Wait a year