...then read this.As Gilliard puts it, if you wonder why most newsrooms consist mostly of white faces, this is it. I make around $20K for this year and I still can't move out of my house, obviously, which makes the comment from Robert Hodierne that much more annoying. Obviously, he had mommy and daddy's help when he was an entry-level office ( Read more... )

1) The majority of aspiring news talent females are lightweight ditzes. Take a killer ratio -- we're talking six male students out of a total number of students in the forties -- and yet every attractive femme student I talked to said something to make me lose interest when the majority of us went to the Malibu Inn to drink and socialize last night ( Read more... )

I'm headed up to a reporter's camp at Pepperdine University in Malibu next weekend that the APTRA is hosting. This wouldn't be that notable except for the fact that I just heard about it yesterday and the thing happened to be sold out ( Read more... )

I was walking into the NBC building today and noted that the three cars belonging to Wendy, Cy, and Teague are all roadsters (two-seaters). Usually, this is innocuous in and of itself, but then you have to consider that of all the management (producers and above) here, more than half are single or divorced, and we're talking about people in their ( Read more... )

Especially because they're so goddamned stupid. In response to a new study, the New York Times, L.A. Times, and Washington Post all went for the latest scaring of parents with supposedly accurate teen sex data with gusto ( Read more... )

We told you so, fuckers.

And yes, the profanity is utterly necessary.

When Fox News' Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera are basically telling Sean Hannity that he's completely and utterly wrong on the mess post-Katrina, you know this shit is beyond spinning.

It's a series of books he bought for me used from Amazon, one by Richard Farina (the title escapes me), Dan Jenkins' Bubba Talks (an entertaining and funny, if short read) and Maureen Dowd's Bushworld collection of columns ( Read more... )

1) How come I hear nothing about the Iraqi or Afghan citizens that die every day on the news ( Read more... )

Monday: Worked during the day (holiday pay!) and then hit Drew's family's barbecue, consuming many burgers. Drew, Adrian and I then went to Rosemead for a house party, complete with $800 in booze, meat and corn grilling (along with many illegal fireworks that I had to drive around just to find a parking space). I spent most of it dancing and ( Read more... )

If you read the papers (online or in print) regularly, you may have noticed something about L.A.'s inauguration of its new mayor -- especially about Antonio Villaraigosa (from here on out, he'll just be Antonio) being the first Latino mayor of the city in over a century ( Read more... )