Los Angeles Times

Recent Events

News & Analysis

editorial and los angeles times - All News and Analysis

• Transition: Otis Chandler, 78

  - 2006-03-13

  The great-grandson of Los Angeles Times owner Harrison Gray Otis wasn't interested in the family business while a student at Stanford University. A muscle-bound 6-foot-3, this child of privilege preferred surfing and shot-putting. But his parents insisted he learn the business, and Chandler wound up becoming "one of the greatest...

  Tags: cow, editorial, journalism, Los Angeles Times, Stanford University

• The paper's community voice cannot be delegated to outsiders: outsourcing editorials could erode relationship with readers

  - 2005-09-22

  The late Ralph McGill of The Atlanta Constitution, one of the greatest editorial voices of the twentieth century and one of several Southern editors who won Pulitzer Prizes for their fearless denunciations of white supremacy, once asserted that editorial writers in an earlier era had played an important role even...

  Tags: editorial, Los Angeles Times, Outsourcing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, voice

• LA Times lets readers write own editorials

  - 2005-06-17

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Readers no longer need fume over Los Angeles Times editorials they do not like -- they can rewrite them and post them on the newspaper's web site. "How do you like the linked editorial? A lot? Thanks! Not so much?" the paper asked in its...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, editorial, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, Wiki

• Contemptible

  - 2005-04-01

  Susan Estrich, who has come to think of herself as a political guru on the dubious basis of her experience running Michad Dukakis's campaign in 1988, recently applied to become a columnist at the Los Angeles Times. When the editorial page editor, Michael Kinsley, turned her down, she speculated that...

  Tags: columnist, editorial, Los Angeles Times

• As they see it.

  - 2004-06-01

  "While I'm out here working my ass off, he's pontificating from Hawaii?" --California Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, in the Los Angeles Times, reacting to vacationing Governor Schwarzenegger's comment that the Legislature should be part-time because it "doesn't have enough to do."...

  Tags: editorial, FINANCE, Governor, Los Angeles Times

• Slated for California

  - 2004-04-30

  The Los Angeles Times announced Wednesday that the paper had chosen a new editorial and opinion editor. What was surprising was the fact that the masthead's new No. Four isn't even a Californian: He's one of the more prominent residents of Seattle, Wash., (no, not that resident). Michael Kinsley, 53,...

  Tags: California, editorial, INTERNET, Los Angeles Times, Seattle

• Two cents.(A Los Angeles Times editorial on the delays broadcasters are adding to live programs. A Los Angeles Times editorial on the delays broadcasters are adding to live programs.)(Editorial)

  - 2004-04-12

  "The FCC has a legal mandate to police certain particularly striking forms of expression. The rest of us don't. We would be wise to get over our squeamishness about that percussive side of language." GRETCHEN HELFRICH, in a commenta ...

  Tags: editorial, Los Angeles Times

• Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star in Glens Falls, New York, was the lone finalist in editorial writing

  - 2003-09-22

  Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star in Glens Falls, New York, was the lone finalist in editorial writing for the ASNE's annual award, since David Barham of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times shared first place.

  Tags: editorial, Los Angeles Times

• Boston Globe Wins Pulitzer Gold Medal for Coverage of Clergy Sex Abuse.

  - 2003-04-08

  By Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 8--The Boston Globe has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its coverage of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, it was announced yesterday. The...

  Tags: Boston Globe, editorial, Los Angeles Times

• The politics and poetry of advice and consent: Congress confronts the Roosevelt administration during the State Department Confirmation Incident of 1944. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)

  - 1998-01-01

  "The Politics and Poetry of Advice and Consent: Congress Confronts the Roosevelt Administration during the State Department Confirmation Incident of 1944." Nicholas Evan Saran takes also explores wheeling and dealing in the Roosevelt administration, but in a crisis that affected the foreign rather than the domestic policy arena. He focuses...

  Tags: administration, Campbell, Clark, Democrat, editorial, Ellis, Government, Los Angeles Times, nomination, nominee, president, Robert, Roosevelt, senator, Tom, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Senate, Washington Post Co., White House