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Hooray! I'm pretty much in agreement and think that even the third, fourth and fifth drafts sometimes are a bit rotten too.
My late father, a non-English-speaking immigrant, came to the U.S. when he was 16. He quickly learned the language, completed his undergraduate and legal education, and ultimately practiced law for over 60 years. I never once in my life heard any vulgar--much less any four letter word--pass from his lips. Once, as a youngster, I swore in his presence. Calmly he counseled me: "The English language has so many truly expressive and meaningful words; there is never any need to resort to improper language." Would that I could have lived up to his counsel, lo these many years as a teacher of English and practitioner of the law.
Melvin: Thanks for your comment. I always welcome dissenting viewpoints. Yours is stated very well and very gently.
I will use the occasional four-letter word here. Though the topic here is legal writing, the setting (a blog) is most informal. So the language used in this blog will not have the same formality as a brief or a business contract. And I believe that the four-letter words are part of the language. But I promise to use them only sparingly — such words lose their punch when used too liberally.
In this instance, I've got a direct, pithy quote from one of the 20th century's greatest writers. Better this time, I think, to leave the quote unaltered.
In his blog, Jacobsen mentions Anne Lamott, who wrote the famous--at least to rhetoricians--essay "Shitty First Drafts." I always assigned this when I taught rhet/comp courses. Full text here:
Might as well change the history books to have Hemingway be a teetotaler. It's a great quote; there is no reason to change it. He was a drinking, fighting, swearing, ray of sunshine. And his contributions greatly outweigh whatever offense people take at his use of profanity.
By the same token, there are many beautiful things that people could paint, draw, or photograph, without resorting to "improper images." But we would all be worse off if artists, concerned about everyone's sensibilities, only made variations of fruit on a table.
Thanks for the link. I'm gratified, but I'm a bit surprised that this topic has generated such a buzz among legal bloggers and twitterers.
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Tearing Down the Big Block
Well after deciding to try and give my build another go,I got the motor out of the car and on the stand.
I had been having problems with a little overheating and believed it to be the timing because it just would'nt start beyond anything over 30 total advance.Ran like a dog,sounded like exhaust coming out of the carb,not popping but a rumble and just refused to idle in gear.
While trying to time it,i noticed the timing mark on damper was jumping between two spots,back and forth.Also heard a small knock and traced it to the timing cover.Sounded like chain was hitting or fuel pump shaft,ruled out fuel pump.Well with this info,i decided to tear into the chain,got it all apart and didn't notice any rub marks and chain was right on.Grabbed the crank snout and was able to move it up and down.Not alot but enough to see the chain slack out abit...
Well i knew then that the motor had to come out,I pulled motor and got it on the stand and pulled the intake,another prize an "S" shaped push rod,oh joy!
Well im going to finish the tear down now and try it again.I will probably go with a different cam and replace the domed pistons with standard flat tops.I was told by several people i had to much cam for my motor anyway.When i built it,i had intended for it to just be a weekend warrior but i want more than that now.Maybe not a daily driver but definately more miles than it sees now.
Sorry to rant but i gotta vent!
Maybe someone here could give me some tips on cam choice and whatnot.here is what i have in it now...
76 454 .30 over
Chrome moly plasma rings
heads 781 casting number,open chamber,rebuilt for this motor locally,the heads they had to replace/remove the rotaters(?) and they had to turn down,i think the guides to get the umbrellas over them.(?) something like that
cam: edelbrock 7162,
adv duration int 300° exh 306° @ .050 int 240° exh 246°
lift @ cam int 0.330 exh .337 @valve int 0.560 exh 0.573
timing @ .050 intake open 10° BTDC intake close 50° ABDC exhaust open 57° BBDC close 9° ATDC
centerlines lobe seps.112° intake ctrline110°
edelbrock 5762 valve springs,matched to cam,standard ratio,
roller tipped rockers
.250 domed hypert pistons
edelbrock 7161 performer plus dual plane intake
edelbrock 1407 750 cfm carb
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Well i got it all tore down and the verdict isn't great...
well as i said in first post,first thing i found was the bent push rod on #4.so i tackled the pass head.With it off i found that the push rod did not hit the piston.So i don't really know how it got bent,it was like an "S" and broken at one joint...
so i pull the other head,pistons looked like all the rest.I start pulling lifters and uh-oh.#4 exhaust lifter is totaly concave so bad there was a hole in it!Also found #8 intake and exhaust also both totally galled out...After pulling the cam found #4 exhaust lobe totally round,#7 exhaust same and #8 intake and exhaust totally round...
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A series of reports from Russia Today (rt.com) and other sites have explained how activists reading through last year's hack by Anonymous of the Strategic Forecasting Intelligence agency (Stratfor) have revealed a little known system already in place and run by the Abraxas corporation although hints of the system were known years earlier. The email have since been released on WikiLeaks. Global Intelligence Files
Related Feature on TrapWire: FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America When you read this other story, it is evident that the capability has rapidly come together in the last few years for computer systems to now store billions of photographs and run continual analysis on them and other related data such as location info (GPS from your phone), phone call history, credit card & bank transactions, vehicle registration recognition and tracking by motorway + street overhead cameras etc
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What is TrapWire?
TrapWire is described as a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology and is installed across the US under the radar of most Americans. As the RT report says:
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. Its part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from Americas intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a whos who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities
A number of years ago it was noted that many areas, particularly poor areas and ones with high concentrations of immigrants were large number of surveillance cameras started appearing particularly at points where people would naturally enter and exit areas such as roads, local metro stations, bus stations, shopping areas and so forth. But this phenomenon is actually widespread and thousands of very discrete and not so discrete cameras have appeared on buses, in train/metro stations, along roads and shopping areas and shopping centers. They each have different characteristics like ability to zoom, read vehicle registration plates, monitor people entering/leaving buildings and so on.
The report continues: The ostentatious reason for the system was actually given by the founder of Abraxas, Richard Helms in a 2005 interview with The Entrepreneur Center, said his signature product "can collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists. He calls it a proprietary technology designed to protect critical national infrastructure from a terrorist attack by detecting the pre-attack activities of the terrorist and enabling law enforcement to investigate and engage the terrorist long before an attack is executed, and that, The beauty of it is that we can protect an infinite number of facilities just as efficiently as we can one and we push information out to local law authorities automatically."
But it can do more than that and collect all sorts of information and search for all sorts of things and people for any number of reasons. And recall that this is all being run by a private company with zero oversight. They can and do sell the analysis to government agencies and to private (corporate) clients. The report details this:
An internal email from early 2011 included in the Global Intelligence Files has Stratfors Burton allegedly saying the program can be used to [walk] back and track the suspects from the get go w/facial recognition software.What is meant by walk back here is that, a sequence of events of some unknown person can be recorded by the system but if later say some facial recognition software identifies them, they can then go back through the data and re-analyse with this new information and that can also help fill out relationships with other entities or people in the playback.
In the next extract we can see that even Stratfor's Burton clearly realises this is a very sinister technology for the country even as he profits from it.
In one email from 2010 leaked by Anonymous, Stratfors Fred Burton allegedly writes, God Bless America. Now they have EVERY major HVT in CONUS, the UK, Canada, Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC as clients. Files on USASpending.gov reveal that the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense together awarded Abraxas and TrapWire more than one million dollars in only the past eleven months.
Web of Links Between Abraxas and other companies
However it is when the nature of Abraxas is explored and how it has been developing as a company recently is what should worry people. Here are somewhat appear at first sight appear to be separate unrelated facts.
When these links were revealed they were strenuously denied as were denials made by various cities that they don't use TrapWire. However, tax documentation clearly link the companies as do further revealations in the emails.
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Through Cubics transportation division, customers can use identity-linking credit cards to purchase unique fare tickets that grant them access to the biggest metro systems in the United States. Once walking away from the ticket machine, though, those same passengers are placed under surveillance in certain markets that not just rely on Cubic for their metro fare needs, but use TrapWire to track suspicious activity.The RCMP are the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, USSS are US Secret Service and White House and Fusion refers to the Fusion centers which are part of the new data fusion centers taking linking multiple agencies and exist for most US cities.
At this point, people should be in little doubt where all this is heading. What the KGB had in the Soviet Union and the Stasi in East Germany doesn't come remotely close to this capability and they would rightly have been extremely jealous, although I've little doubt that Russia today or China are actually not too far behind and in the case of China they may even be ahead. But it seems this new reality is converging ever more closer and closer to the horror brilliantly outlined in the novel 1984 by George Orwell and it displays his incredible insight into the deep authoritarian tendencies that lurk in humans and how once the process starts it coalesces with greater speed as it progresses into the nightmare that we have already slipped into.
For the full text of the set of reports which the above has been compiled from see:
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Mainstream media whitewashes the facts behind TrapWire scandal
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The Geraldo Rivera vs. Alessandra Stanley "was it a nudge?" debate has prompted examination into her errors in the past (in Chicago, bizarrely). First the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal ran a piece on Sunday questioning Stanley's record of errors: "We all make mistakes," he says kindly, "but Stanley's pieces have had doozies" (un, less kindly):
The Times has issued corrections to point out that the WB is not a cable network and Fox's short-lived hotel soap "North Shore" was not a program about the sex industry. Another piece, according to the correction, "misstated the political backdrop of the economic recession that preceded the good times that were the setting of `Friends.'"
A personal favorite, though, is the 2004 column that mentioned Adm. James Stockdale. As the correction said, "The admiral ran as an independent in 1992 with Ross Perot, not as a Republican in 1996 with John McCain, who was not a nominee." Um, yeah.
Um, ouch. Further ouch: former Chicago Tribune TV critic John Cook takes up the cause at his blog Reference Tone. In an etry entitled "The Wrongest Critic" Cook runs Stanley's numbers through Nexus and comes up with a whopping corrections rate: "My God," he exclaimes. "The woman is clocking corrections at more than a monthly rate. And they are stupid, stupid errors." He then goes on to list them all (NB these corrections do not include anything regarding Katie Couric), going back to October 2001 when she refers to CNN's Jeff Greenfield as Jeff Greenberg. (NB we have no bone to pick even though this one from August 5th was the first listed: "The TV Watch column in The Arts yesterday, about the legacy of Peter Jennings, misstated the name of the network where he started his career. It is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, not Company").
Cook crunches Stanely's corrections rate at 14%; this, by the way, is an improvement over Gawker's version run in mid-April, which clocked it at 15.3%.
What do those numbers mean? Geraldo aside, they are mostly small; Cook says, fairly, that probably there are no "we have to stop Alessandra Stanley from writing for the Times–now" memos in the works. But, as Regret the Error asked presciently of Seth Mnookin just last week, are corrections an early indicator of something wrong? Said Mnookin: "Certainly, if in every 20th story you file there are two or three, there's something wrong." Stanley's rate averages to one in seven.
Mnookin also said that the NYT had "gotten much better about not viewing every correction as an embarrassment." In this case, it may be the lack thereof about which Times should be abashed.
Phil Rosenthal: "Stanley's pieces have had doozies" [Chicago Tribune]
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EfikSyllabification: Ef·ik
Pronunciation: /ˈefik /
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1A member of a people of southern Nigeria.
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- At Abiriba the tradition is that their Ekpe was purchased from the Efik of Calabar with whom Abiriba traders were in close commercial contact.
- As traders conversant in multiple languages and cultures, the Efik were particularly receptive to other belief systems, molding them to their own values.
- Nigeria also provided slaves for Barbados, the Yoruba, Efik, Igbo and Ibibio being the main ethnic groups targeted.
2The Benue-Congo language of the Efik, closely related to Ibibio, and used as a lingua franca.
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- What we needed, then, were real examples of spontaneously written text in a tone language that, like Efik, has no written literary tradition of its own.
- The concept of logophoricity was introduced in the analysis of African languages like Aghem, Efik, and Tuburi, where there is a separate paradigm of logophoric pronouns which is employed for such a purpose.
- But this means that we should expect that dozens of other Black English words had been traced to, say, Bambara, Mende, Twi, Yoruba, Efik, Umbundu, and so on.
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- In their seven-year odyssey criss-crossing the Atlantic the Robin Johns repeatedly drew upon their connections established as Efik slave traders, but also sought out new allies to assist them in their quest for freedom.
- The Dictionary further suggests that the word might derive from the Efik word mba-kara, denoting 'master.'
- And finally the formal conventions present in Duala, Ijo, Ibibio, and Efik art probably dispersed in the same manner as they do today.
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RCED-92-84: Published: Apr 10, 1992. Publicly Released: May 28, 1992.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) inspection of closing land disposal facilities, focusing on the: (1) enforcement actions taken against facilities found in violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); and (2) factors delaying the proper closing of those facilities.
GAO found that: (1) over a 5-year period, states conducted annual inspections 96 percent of the time for the 20 closing facilities; (2) states conducted 89 percent of the triennial inspections to determine the adequacy of facilities' groundwater monitoring systems, as EPA directed; (3) although those inspections disclosed serious violations that affected closure at 19 of the 20 facilities, EPA has revised its guidance by decreasing the number of inspections required because of resource constraints at the federal and state levels; (4) while none of the three states have conformed fully with the EPA enforcement policy, states' success in closing facilities has depended less on the type of enforcement action than the states' success in ensuring that facilities install adequate groundwater monitoring systems, which are necessary for certifying closure; (5) EPA has not determined how many closing facilities nationwide do not have adequate groundwater monitoring systems and, without such systems in place, the extent of the contamination threat is unknown; (6) once enforcement actions have been taken, lengthy negotiations and appeals delay final resolution; and (7) EPA has not yet developed a plan to determine which facilities nationwide will close or established the best means of closing them.
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Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: Although EPA agrees that facilities should not be allowed to postpone closure by pretending to remove waste, it does not believe it can develop meaningful guidance. In its FY 1993 operating plans, EPA has provided guidance on when regions and states should request in postclosure permit applications.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should develop guidance regarding when: (1) facilities should be allowed to attempt waste removal and how long those attempts should continue before facilities are instructed to revise their closure plans to close with waste in place; and (2) regions and states should request post-closure permit applications.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: EPA has not instituted time frames on a national basis because of the caseload carried by EPA's seven administrative law judges.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should establish time frames for settling disagreements with owners/operators after enforcement orders are issued, and when such disagreements cannot be resolved and orders are appealed, evaluate the feasibility of establishing time frames for administrative hearings and for obtaining decisions in those hearings.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: EPA has reinstated the requirement that these inspections be conducted every 3 years in its FY 1993 program plans.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should direct EPA regions and the states to reinstate the requirement that groundwater monitoring inspections be conducted at least every 3 years at closing land disposal facilities once basic monitoring systems are installed to ensure that the systems are capable of providing necessary and basic information on the extent to which those facilities pose a threat to human health and the environment and require cleanup.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: While EPA agrees that inspections at closing facilities are important and has made inspections a national priority in its FY 1993 program plans, EPA has stated that it is not practical to require more inspections than once every 2 years, as mandated by law.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should direct EPA regions and the states to give a higher priority to closing land disposal facilities by annually conducting compliance inspections at those facilities, thereby ensuring that facilities do not have any violations that would significantly delay or prevent closure.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: EPA has directed its regions and the states to address all RCRA hazardous waste facilities, on a worst facility first basis, not only just closing land disposal facilities. EPA has also directed its regions and the states to emphasize actual cleanup over studies and assessments at facility sites. A GAO follow-up review is considering these issues again.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should direct EPA regions and the states to obtain and maintain data on the status of closing land disposal facilities' groundwater monitoring systems and on barriers delaying or preventing their installation, as well as develop a plan to address those barriers in a timely fashion so that closure can be completed.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: EPA has outlined a strategy to address all RCRA hazardous waste facilities on a worst-facility-first basis, not just closing land disposal facilities. EPA has asked its regions to submit a strategy to address closing land disposal facilities that either rank high or are unranked for environmental priority. A GAO follow-up review is addressing these issues again.
Recommendation: The Administrator, EPA, should develop and implement a plan that: (1) identifies those closing land disposal facilities not making reasonable progress toward properly closing and unlikely to comply with RCRA requirements; (2) determines who will install necessary groundwater monitoring systems and when they will be installed to provide basic information on the nature and extent of groundwater contamination; and (3) determines the best options for controlling and cleaning up, in a reasonable time, those facilities that pose the greatest threat.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
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Climate Change:Better Management of Exposure to Potential Future Losses Is Needed for Federal Flood and Crop InsuranceGAO-15-28: Published: Oct 29, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 20, 2014.
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NOAA's Observing Systems:Additional Steps Needed to Achieve an Integrated, Cost-Effective PortfolioGAO-15-96: Published: Nov 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 17, 2014.
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Climate Change:USDA's Ongoing Efforts Can Be Enhanced with Better Metrics and More Relevant Information for FarmersGAO-14-755: Published: Sep 16, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 16, 2014.
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Ocean Acidification:Federal Response Under Way, but Actions Needed to Understand and Address Potential ImpactsGAO-14-736: Published: Sep 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 14, 2014.
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Drinking Water:Characterization of Injected Fluids Associated with Oil and Gas ProductionGAO-14-857R: Published: Sep 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2014.
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Army Corps of Engineers:The Corps Needs to Take Steps to Identify All Projects and Studies Eligible for DeauthorizationGAO-14-699: Published: Aug 21, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 22, 2014.
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Fish Stock Assessments:Prioritization and FundingGAO-14-794R: Published: Sep 19, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 19, 2014.
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EPA Regulations and Electricity:Update on Agencies' Monitoring Efforts and Coal-Fueled Generating Unit RetirementsGAO-14-672: Published: Aug 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 15, 2014.
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Missouri River Flood and Drought:Experts Agree the Corps Took Appropriate Action, Given the Circumstances, but Should Examine New Forecasting TechniquesGAO-14-741: Published: Sep 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 2014.
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"Adaptive Web Services Brokering", in Machine Interpretations of Patterns: Image Analysis and Data Mining, Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2010. Download PDF (362.15 KB),
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From LA Times Suitor to LA Times Publisher - Posted August 11, 2014
When everyone and their brother was being mentioned as a possible bidder for Tribune newspapers in general and the Los Angeles Times in particular, Hillel Aron wrote a crackling ... [morningmedianewsfeed]
From LA Times Suitor to LA Times Publisher - Posted August 11, 2014
When everyone and their brother was being mentioned as a possible bidder for Tribune newspapers in general and the Los Angeles Times in particular, Hillel Aron wrote a crackling ... [FishbowlNY]
Tribune Company Cleared to Exit Bankruptcy - Posted November 19, 2012
Tribune Company, the Chicago-based owner of several newspapers and 23 television stations, announced on Friday it has received approval needed to end its four-year bankruptcy proceedings. "This decision will enable the company to continue moving forward toward emergence from Chapter 11, a process we expect to comp... [TVSpy]
Tribune Company Developing Its Own Tablet Device - Posted August 9, 2011
Amidst a series of layoffs throughout the newspaper chain, the Tribune Company is apparently working on developing its own tablet computer. The tabloid will resemble Google's Android system and will be free or largely discounted to subscribers of Tribune's newspapers. ... [FishbowlLA]
Tribune Company Consolidation Leaves Out the LA Times: Is a Sale On the Way? - Posted July 18, 2011
Tribune Company announced some major consolidations in its publishing division today. Four major publishing jobs were just axed-- executive vice president of Tribune Publishing ... [FishbowlLA]
Tribune's Appointment of Nils Larsen to Broadcasting CEO Leaves Many 'Scratching Their Heads' - Posted June 2, 2011
Tribune Co. announced a significant change to the management structure of its broadcasting operations this week, eliminating the president position held by Jerry Kersting for the past year and appointing ... [TVSpy]
Tribune Co. Names Eddy Hartenstein CEO - Posted May 6, 2011
Tribune Co., which owns 24 stations across the country including WPIX in New York and WGN in Chicago, announced today that it... [TVSpy]
LA Times Publisher Made CEO of Tribune Co. - Posted May 6, 2011
Eddy Hartenstein, publisher of the Los Angeles Times Media Group, has been promoted to head honcho of the Tribune Company. His official title is Company President and Chief Executive Officer. Oddly enough, Hartenstein will also keep... [FishbowlLA]
LA Times Publisher On the Stand in Tribune Company Bankruptcy Case - Posted March 14, 2011
LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein took the stand today in the Tribune Company bankruptcy trial. Bloomberg was on site and... [FishbowlLA]
Mosaic by Tribune Set for New Microsoft Tablets - Posted January 6, 2011
Tribune announced that it will roll out an app for the upcoming line of Microsoft-based tablets, Mosaic by Tribune, which allows users to select articles to read by clicking on a moving set of photographs. Mosaic by Tribune will offer content from all of the publisher's newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times,... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]
Tribune Company COO Gerry Spector Steps Down - Posted December 29, 2010
The Chicago Tribune's "Tower Ticker" blog is reporting Tribune Co. COO and Sam Zell pal Gerry Spector is stepping down at the end of the year. Chicago Tribune Media Group CEO ... [FishbowlLA]
Newspaper Circulation Shrinking Nationwide--LA Times Down 8.67% - Posted October 26, 2010
The Audit Bureau of Circulations released its most recent report on newspaper circulation in America and the results were not pretty. Circulation was down 5% overall compared with figures from six months ago. Papers at the top of the food chain took major hits. The LA Times was down 8.67%, the... [FishbowlLA]
Randy Michaels Out as Tribune CEO - Posted October 22, 2010
In an anti-climatic decision, the Tribune Company board of directors got Randy Michaels to step down from his post as CEO. The clock was ticking on Michaels' tenure after allegations into his personal conduct and management style, leading... [morningmedianewsfeed]
Randy Michaels Out as Tribune CEO - Posted October 22, 2010
In an anti-climatic decision, the Tribune Company board of directors got Randy Michaels to step down from his post as CEO. The clock was ticking on Michaels' tenure after allegations into his personal conduct and management style, leading... [FishbowlNY]
Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels Is Sticking Around... For Now - Posted October 19, 2010
The rumor mill was churning this morning as multiple outlets reported that Tribune Co. CEO ... [morningmedianewsfeed]
Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels Is Sticking Around... For Now - Posted October 19, 2010
The rumor mill was churning this morning as multiple outlets reported that Tribune Co. CEO ... [FishbowlNY]
Jim Newton Out at LAT, Nick Goldberg Up - Posted September 17, 2009
We've pasted the entire memo from Eddy Hartenstein below: From: Hartenstein, Eddy Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:06 AM Subject: Editorial Pages Announcement I am pleased to announce the following changes in management responsibilities of our editorial pages. Jim Newton, who has served as editor of the edi... [FishbowlLA]
June 7, 2009- Circulation of The LA Times Sunday Edition Drops Below One Million - Posted June 15, 2009
LAT pressman Ed Padgett writes on his blog: My career at the Los Angeles Times began on August 3, 1972, and the Sunday circulation of our newspaper always surpassed the million mark my entire career. This unfortunately changed on Sunday June 7, 2009 when circulation eased below one million copies. Her... [FishbowlLA]
LAT Front Page Ad Could Have Been Even Worse - Posted April 9, 2009
Seems the original plan for the front page Southland advertisement would have been even more intrusive. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has the scoop: Newsroom sources say that as of Tuesday, publisher Eddy Hartenstein had OK'd... [FishbowlLA]
We (Heart) Roy Rivenburg - Posted October 10, 2008
Yes, we're a few days late with this, but we were busy atoning for our sins. Looks like we have another sin to apologize for: The sin of not getting this to you sooner. Check out Roy Rivenburg's latest "edition" of Not The L.A. Times: D... [FishbowlLA]
LAO Afraid Sources Have Been Allegedly Compromised Which Makes for a Perfect Post - Posted October 8, 2008
LA Observed's Kevin Roderick's 'sources' - man/woman/animal lover on the inside at the LAT's - job has been threatened. His Deep Throat is in Deep Shit. Which makes for the perfect civil disobedient - alas most self-important ... [FishbowlLA]
Breaking: Jim Newton Returns to the L.A Times - Posted September 19, 2008
In an e-mail to staffers today, Eddy Hartenstein announces that Jim Newton is coming back to his job as editorial page editor: I'm pleased to announce that Jim Newton has agreed to return to The Times to resume his duties as editor of the editorial pages. You all know Jim, so no... [FishbowlLA]
LAT's Eddy Hartenstein's First Move: Poach From Freedom Communications - Posted August 26, 2008
Among the first moves of new LAT publisher Eddy Hartenstein was to snag Freedom Communication's Scott Mc... [FishbowlLA]
Not The LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted August 21, 2008
Our favorite fake newspaper is back (no offense to The Onion). Here are some highlights: Sam Zell buys California: He replaces the legislature with a Magic 8 Ball and orders a 15 percent reduction in the number of state re... [FishbowlLA]
Eddy Hartenstein Greets His New Staff - Posted August 18, 2008
New L.A. Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein sent the staff the following good morning: Good day, As an avid reader of The Times for more than 45 years, I never dreamed that I would awake one morning to find my name at the top of the masthead. I am honored ... [FishbowlLA]
Morning Reading List, 08.18.08 - Posted August 18, 2008
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L.A. Times: Eddy Hartenstein Named Publisher, Zell Promises Paper 'Is a Keeper' - Posted August 16, 2008
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