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devifemme

The LA Times back in form!

Apr 17, 2019 10:23

The Vanity Fair on-line site has a terrific piece on the stunning turnaround at the Los Angeles Times ( Read more... )

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devifemme April 17 2019, 14:35:13 UTC

Not to get too didactic, but let me repeat previous notes to the effect that my tags come from a decade-old list on LJ. I stopped creating new ones when LJ started charging for them. (Curiously, LJ keeps up my old list.)

Nowadays, I'm amused to pick out a few old tags for some of my current posts. Any readers interested to see what I was thinking back in The Day is invited to click away!

meisje_viktoria April 17 2019, 15:55:34 UTC

Well for a long time, and who knows it could still be, it was a "good old boys" scene. I am glad there are some changes.

Good ol' boys! devifemme April 17 2019, 16:32:22 UTC

Fortunarely, some of the boys are Asian billionaires (and Amazonian ones!).

I might have guessed, dear Vikkie, that you'd be among the cognoscenti of the newspaper scene.

Hugs, J

Re: Good ol' boys! meisje_viktoria April 17 2019, 16:36:30 UTC

I would not say that I am that, but I do follow the medium of news media. History has proved those who control the press sway the society norms.

RE: Re: Good ol' boys! devifemme April 17 2019, 17:50:29 UTC

They do, of course. Trumpsky is only the most egregious practitioner of influence-mongering in regard to the media.

When I was working overseas, I always enjoyed my conversations (mostly on "deep background") with both local press and non-resident reporters. I was "burned" only once in 20 years: a leftist asshole based in Ecuador twisted the fuck out of a long off-the-record interview.