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2/19/2005

Susan Estrich Begins New Anti-L.A. Times Web Site

Filed under: Dog Trainer,General — Patterico @ 9:46 am



Susan Estrogen (name slightly altered for comedic purposes) has begun a new anti-L.A. Times web site called LATimesBias.org.

Thanks to commenter “furious a” for the tip. “Furious a” says that Estrich is “preparing to tread on your turf.” To “furious a” I say: thank you very much for the compliment — but: nonsense!

While I am always amused and complimented when people think of L.A. Times criticism as “my turf,” that is far from the truth. Many others — such as Hugh Hewitt, Mickey Kaus, Armed Liberal, and Xrlq, just to name a few — have done an excellent job of taking this paper to task in the past. In the case of Hugh and Mickey, they bring to the table their credentials as real journalists, which is something I don’t have.

So I claim no monopoly on criticism of the L.A. Times. Nor would I want to. For one thing, this paper’s monopoly is a huge part of its problem. Do you think a newspaper could get away with this if it had competition? For another thing, I have often said that no one person can document every biased article printed by this paper. They have an army of reporters and editors. We need an army of bloggers to keep an eye on them.

It’s not clear exactly what Estrich plans to do with this web site, but I bet it will be interesting. Estrich was, don’t forget, the campaign manager for Michael Dukakis. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that she is (or will be) blind to the paper’s liberal bias — and when she sees it, her commentary will enjoy a certain added credibility on the issue. For example, recall Estrich’s blistering criticism of the hit job the paper did on Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So I welcome Susan Estrich to the world of regular L.A. Times criticism. As I said when Ken Reich began his Take Back the Times web site, I am not worried that any other web site is going to displace yours truly as your favorite critic of the paper. But I am always happy to welcome others to the party.

UPDATE: The LATimesBias.org web site is currently unavailable. No word on whether this is a temporary outage, or yet another web site critical of The Times that never really got off the ground.

UPDATE x2: It’s back up.

17 Responses to “Susan Estrich Begins New Anti-L.A. Times Web Site”

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  2. Susan’s complaining is amusingly absurd. Everything is all about her.

    Time after time, when I ask my syndicate “how I’m doing,” it explains the facts of life to me: Most newspapers will only “take” one liberal woman. … I’m a lawyer, a law professor, a Californian, a mother of teenagers, a crime victim.

    I think LA Times already has too much of this compassion-think nonsense. Where the legitimacy of your facts and opinions are based on who you are, what your victim status is, and how elite your credentials are.

    Her answer to the LA Times question Where are all the great women thinkers? is an article where she mentions I about 47.1 billion times.

    Ladainian (91b3b2)

  3. I’ll always think of presidential knee-pads when I think of Susan Estrich.

    I wonder what her site will be like. I’ve seen her be less than honest fairly regularly and she’s pretty much of a lefty.
    I bet that the type of bias she finds will be anti-woman as that’s her present cause. And I bet a lot of it will be misrepresentation and Dowdifying quotes on her part.

    I just can’t trust her after that knee-pad remark.

    Veeshir (8e5391)

  4. Veeshir,

    That wasn’t Susan Estrich. It was Nina Burleigh who uttered that disgusting remark.

    Patterico (756436)

  5. I’ve seen Estro Estrich be surprisingly rational, when commenting for Fox. That she starts off at this time claiming, in effect, that certain women are not real women is a bad sign – or perhaps a low blow? A period?

    J. Peden (ffccb8)

  6. I could have sworn it was Susan.
    I still don’t trust her very much.

    Veeshir (77d782)

  7. The LA Times has a circulation of almost a milllion.

    That’s how many potential critics there are.

    James Fulford (83d3b0)

  8. I don’t know what they’re up to, maybe they should stay out of the kitchen until they learn php/html. But check out this (grossly misformatted) webpage. The cornucopia of keywords and phrases randomly scattered in this email is absolutely hilarious. It’s like liberal poetry:

    is your #2 hispanic?
    we don’t want to be like Arianna
    how many women from our law school
    a successful campaign to pressure
    no one is paying attention, which is the problem for women today
    This is what passes for “Gender Studies”
    not a single woman on the News Corp board
    he’s got three women under the three men

    http://www.latimesbias.org/modules.php?name=email

    Ladainian (91b3b2)

  9. And to think she is a Professor at USC Law School.

    I thought they were trying to upgrade the reputation of the school?

    Flap (27ae41)

  10. latimesbias.org site is down.

    Flap (27ae41)

  11. And still down… It’s been down for quite a while now.

    Leigh (0848cb)

  12. Estrich vs. Kinsley (and the L.A. Times)
    Patterico notes that Susan Estrich has joined the L.A. Times bias watch with a new blog. What some readers might not realize is that Estrich’s site seems to be a salvo in an increasingly personal war between Estrich and LA…

    Calblog (2fb2f0)

  13. Patterico: You’re welcome. Love the realtime comment previews.

    More on Michael Kinsley and Susan Estrich making faces at each other. (via Instapundit)

    I don’t know who’s making a bigger mistake here — Mike (May I call you “Mike”?) Kinsley provoking a pugnacious and ubiquitous TV commentator (and however many other angry women Ms. Estrich can recruit) or Ms. Estrich picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

    To which bloggers would respond: What’s “Ink”?. Whoever loses this one, the Republic wins, if only from the entertainment value of watching prominent El Lay professional women getting their undies bunched at Mike Kinsley, and Mike Kinsley uncharacteristically losing his cool.

    Heh-heh,

    furious

    furious (cfdab4)

  14. USC Law School is a top school. They can’t get rid of Estrich because she’s tenured.

    Adam (0d3c98)

  15. Estrich changed the site around quite a bit. Hilariously enough, 90% of the comments on the original site were pro-Kinsley – comments are now gone.

    Polar Opposite Politics

    CL (ef37b3)

  16. What is wrong with Estrich? Isn’t it obvious that if these ratios are important, that she should also have bio breakdowns for different races? What % of editorials are from Chinese women, Native-American men, Japanese-Korean split raced, black, or Tiger Woods’ race…

    What percentage of editorial submissions are from plastic surgery patients? What percentage build website where they spew incoherent complaints about virtual diversity. What % are women who compose most of their email while drunk?

    Ladainian (91b3b2)

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