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For the second time in a little over a year, the Los Angeles Times has lost its editorial director over conflicts between the editorial side and the business side of the paper. Last fall a similar drama played out when Dean Baquet (now Washington, DC, bureau chief for the New York Times) was fired by [...]

Print journalists criticizing bloggers is nothing new. So when Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University, wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, in which he asserted that bloggers do no real reporting, it was difficult to suppress a yawn.
To bolster its argument — or to give it the appearance of specificity [...]

The LAT covers the Mirthala Salinas affair.
UPDATE, Nov. 18, 2007: The above link (now removed) has gone bad. Here’s a summary of the story.
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By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press Writer: “[Supreme Court chief justice] Roberts walked out the hospital’s ambulance door wearing a blue sport coast, a blue shirt with no tie and slacks”
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Some pretty porous copy on this text panel about porous paving at the National Botanical Gardens…Two more tough [...]

That’s the claim of Scott Karp, who has done the kind of analysis of the NYTCO’s earnings report that most journalists fail to do. His conclusion is that the company’s reports are slickly designed to conceal what may be double digit declines in print revenue. Carp remarks:
Honestly, I can’t really blame NYTCO or other newspapers [...]

What we get in newspaper book reviews are critics testifying to what their first encounters with a work were like, before any other people have experienced the work. There can be something awkward in such encounters that gives rise to some of the fun and sometimes frustrations of the readers of book reviews. It is [...]