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• Turning the page on the Los Angeles Times

  - 2008-08-18

  OK, the fat lady has sung, the straw has broken the camel's back, the well has run dry, and it's all over but the shouting. I'm officially over the Los Angeles Times ... We've had a mutually satisfying affair for more than 40 years: I've sent them money; they've...

  Tags: Government, Los Angeles Times, president, SOFTWARE

• Rapper denounces story he knew of Shakur attack

  - 2008-03-18

  Sean "Diddy" Combs has denied a report by the Los Angeles Times that his associates were responsible for the 1994 robbery and shooting of Tupac Shakur at a New York recording studio, and that he knew about the attack in advance. "The story is a lie," the hip-hop...

  Tags: attack, FBI, Government, Los Angeles Times, SECURITY

• Working hard for the city against all odds: Rockard "Rocky" Delgadillo L.A. City Attorney

  - 2007-09-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is certainly a controversial figure. In August 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that Delgadillo used more than twice the number of gallons of water over the last two years as typical property owners in their parts of Los Angeles while...

  Tags: attorney, CAREER, football, Government, job, Los Angeles Times

• Breaking the news: it's not the Internet that's killing newspapers. It's the equity-chasing investors and their friends at the FCC who have put outsize profits before a free press

  - 2007-03-01

  Senate reconfirmation hearings tend to be predictable affairs, marked by polite give-and-take and senatorial grandstanding, but generally free of surprise plot twists. And so it was supposed to go last September 12, when Federal Communications Commission FCC chairman Kevin Martin appeared before the Commerce Committee. In March 2005, following the...

  Tags: blog, Chicago, equity, FCC, Government, Internet, investor, Los Angeles Times, MSM, Tribune Co., TVs

• The monthly journalism award

  - 2007-01-01

  Judy Pasternak The Los Angeles Times Nov. 19-Nov. 22, 2006 It's often noted that the poor suffer most from environmentally irresponsible land use. In a four-part series called "Blighted Homeland," Los Angeles Times reporter Judy Pasternak exposes a particularly horrific example. During the Cold War, mining companies...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Regulations

• Three of Four Newspapers Studied Favor Israeli Instead of Palestinian Sources

  - 2006-10-01

  A reporter for The Los Angeles Times wrote about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand pictures just might win the war ... Every photograph-and indeed, every word-is a weapon in the media U.S. newspapers are directly involved in this media war....

  Tags: Government, Israel, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, New York Times Co., U.S.

• US investigating reported sale of military secrets in Afghan bazaar

  - 2006-04-12

  KABUL AFP — The US military in Afghanistan said it was investigating the reported sale of military secrets smuggled out of its main base on stolen computer discs and sold in a public bazaar. The information included classified military assessments of enemy targets, names of Afghan officials alleged to...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, computer, Government, Los Angeles Times, Pakistan, PRODUCTIVITY

• Malaysia's Mahathir admits $1.2 mil. paid for meeting with Bush

  - 2006-02-27

  KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 21 Kyodo Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has admitted that a $1.2 million lobbying fee was paid to secure a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House in 2002, local dailies reported Tuesday. Mahathir, who was then still...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Malaysia, SOFTWARE, U.S., White House

• Pombo defends thwarting of federal investigation

  - 2006-01-10

  Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, said Monday he was justified in using his powers to help thwart a government investigation against a prominent Republican political contributor because a "corrupt agency" was trying to "extort" the man's land through illegal means. Pombo was responding in a conference call to reporters...

  Tags: FDIC, Government, Los Angeles Times, SOFTWARE

• Pombo: FDIC used extortion

  - 2006-01-10

  Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, said Monday he was justified in using his powers to help thwart a government investigation against a prominent Republican political contributor because a corrupt agency was trying to extort the mans land through illegal means. Pombo was responding in a conference call to...

  Tags: FDIC, Government, Los Angeles Times, SOFTWARE