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1/1/2006

“Outside the Tent” Resolutions for the L.A. Times

Filed under: Dog Trainer,General — Patterico @ 10:07 am



Today’s L.A. Times “Outside the Tent” column is a collection of New Year’s resolutions for the newspaper, proposed by previous contributors. Four of the resolutions are mine, submitted under the nom de plume “Patrick Frey.” Here they are:

• To encourage more columnists — and even reporters — to start blogs.

• To fill a top editorial position with a staunch Republican — that is, if we can find one. Anybody know a staunch Republican?

• To make it clear in stories about judicial nominations that opposition to Roe vs. Wade is not the same as opposition to legalized abortion.

• To continue running “Outside the Tent.”

There are many other excellent suggestions in the piece. I particularly enjoyed these:

• To publish a center-right political analyst with as many column inches per week as Ronald Brownstein is allocated. (Hugh Hewitt)

• To expand its Rolodex to include more than the predictable roster of Najee Ali, Ramona Ripston and Earl Ofari Hutchinson when seeking “community reaction” to controversial police incidents. (Jack Dunphy [pseudonym for an LAPD cop] )

• To rediscover California’s Capitol and redefine coverage to include how and why more than $100 billion a year in state taxes are expended. (David Abel)

• To review or profile a single restaurant or hotel in the Sunday magazine that people earning less than $100,000 a year could theoretically afford. (Matt Welch)

• To offer more crime coverage and stop behaving as if The Times is protecting property values. It’s a big city, I know. But New York is a big city too, and the New York Post manages to cover crime. (Mickey Kaus)

Go read them all.

6 Responses to ““Outside the Tent” Resolutions for the L.A. Times”

  1. My suggestion is that the LA Times agrees to look at fifty uncorrected 2005 errors submitted LAT-examining bloggers and to then agree to either correct those errors or to – in writing – explain why each error was not and will not be corrected.

    Brady Westwater (72f6df)

  2. The Tribune Company should cut its losses, close the paper, and convert the headquarters building on Spring Street into condos.

    Justice Frankfurter (2dcd84)

  3. Be interesting to see just how few of these suggestions they follow. Probably just the ones about doing LAUSD puff peices.

    Kevin Murphy (6a7945)

  4. I still want the old masthead back and the cannon.

    Pat Patterson (5b3946)

  5. JF, I’m thinking a homeless shelter, in the spirit of altruism, of course.

    Harry Arthur (b318a5)

  6. From Today’s Corruption Timeline, 2 Democrat Senators are mentioned as returning donations:
    “Dec 13-22 2005: Six members of Congress — Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla.; Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.; Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont.; and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. — return or give away campaign donations they received from Abramoff and his associates.”

    The punchline in today’s article is this:
    “Abramoff had close ties not only with Republican members of Congress, but with conservative causes in general.”

    Mike W (c20d28)


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