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• In Brief: In a column called "Beating Joel Stein," ...

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:12 pm

  Tags: Babble, Beat Joel Stein Please, Joel Stein, Los Angeles Times, Nerve, Penises

  In a column called "Beating Joel Stein," (not, sadly, a how-to guide) the L.A. Times "humor" columnist introduces you to the finalist of his Comedy Special Olympics. Dude writes for Nerve and Babble...

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• Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  not take -- STEPHANOPOULOS: But if he said no, you'd go in. GIULIANI: I didn't say we'd go in, I said I wouldn't take that option off the table. STEPHANOPOULOS: No, well, you actually said, "I would take that option." GIULIANI: I said I would keep that option open. STEPHANOPOULOS: No, you said -- GIULIANI: In any

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• Most popular hits at LATimes.com

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Blogs Bloggers, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  08, 2007 12:16 PM To: All LATimes Employees Subject: Big Web Picture Colleagues: We had 72 million page views on latimes.com last month the same number we had in June. Not an all-time record, but we can blame the summer traffic doldrums and a relatively slow news month. That s a 17% increase over last July. Borrowing a term from Steve

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• LAT adds a Biz writer

  Published: August 8, 2007, 8:08 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  beats at the Contra Costa Times, then owned by Knight Ridder. When she persuaded a source to leak her sealed documents from a closely watched Oracle court case, she became one of the first Contra Costa reporters to move the stock markets. For four months after the start of the Iraq War she covered the Pentagon from Knight-Ridder's Washington

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• Next for Sitrick: LAT's Bates

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:58 pm

  Tags: Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  desk in the Times' Business section, is jumping into the crisis PR game at Sitrick and Company. He has the second-longest tenure in the Business section and more bylines than anyone on the staff, accoding to the memo from Business Editor Davan Maharaj. From: Maharaj, Davan Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:52 PM Subject:

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• Numerous media outlets publish misleading attacks on decision to limit electronic voting

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:54 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, Government Elections

  the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle -- did not address the explanation given in the report itself for the conditions under which the testers worked. After discussing "techniques" by which hackers "can discover secrets that companies and organizations wish to keep hidden" and providing examples

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• NY Post: Comparisons to Genocidal Tyrant' Almost Killed Dow Jones Deal

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Media Bias Debate, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Journalistic Issues

  He wasn't kidding. The Los Angeles Times, in a column by Tim Rutten compared him to a tyrannical dictator on June 6. "[P]robably not quite as frightening as the day we learned Kim Jong Il has the bomb, but close ... very close." The deal for the Wall Street Journal is believed to be an effort to improve News Corp.'s Fox Business

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• Homicide map much improved

  Published: August 10, 2007, 2:28 am

  Tags: Blogs Bloggers, Los Angeles Times, Police Beat

  Times has added a whole bunch of filters and details to the new interactive map that goes with Jill Leovy's homicide blog. If you want to just see the black men over 50 who died by stabbing, you can. I haven't fully tested it, but it looks pretty responsive. Leovy previously linked to a map maintained by USC professor Michael Quick. Edited

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• LA Times Item on Art Students Painting Their Anti-War Politics

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:49 am

  Tags: Culture Society, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Steve Brodner, Los Angeles Times, School Of Visual Arts

  Los Angeles Times op-ed page item "The art of war" contains drawings on the subject of the Iraq war done by students of visual arts teacher Steve Brodner at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The drawing displayed here, of Pres. Bush in a bubble floating over a mound of skulls, typifies the attitudes expressed, all of

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• Tribune stock plunging

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  Down to $24.87 in mid-day trading today, almost ten dollars below what Sam Zell is supposedly going to pay for the struggling company. It's the lowest value for Tribune stock since about 1998.

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• Zell coming to town

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:24 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  meeting Thursday of the L.A. Times' Management Communications Group. "You won t want to miss this, so be there if you can and bring your questions for Sam," Publisher David Hiller emailed to executives. "See you on Thursday at 10." Lacter: Is Tribune deal dying?

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• Intern gets LAT sports job

  Published: August 14, 2007, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Sports

  been covering soccer as a Times sports intern. He apparently impressed enough to stay — and inspired Sports Editor Randy Harvey to put some writing into his memo announcing the news: To: The Staff From: Randy Harvey, Sports Editor From Jaime Cardenas, the newest addition to our sports staff: "The first edition of the Los Angeles

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• Steven Seagal wants an apology

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:51 am

  Tags: Books Authors, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  the Mafia," Seagal says in a Times story tomorrow. "These kinds of inflammatory allegations scare studio heads and independent producers -- and kill careers." His was flaming out anyway, but he makes a good point. Also in Friday's LAT: Jamie Foxx has signed to play Nathaniel Ayers, the Skid Row musician who was featured in a whole bunch of Steve

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• Define 'declined to comment'

  Published: August 19, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  Chuck Philips of the Times reported that U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek "declined to comment" on questions about his office's role. Funny thing about that is that Nikki Finke has an email that Mrozek sent Philips certainly seeming to comment. From: Mrozek, Thom Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:41 PM To: Philips, Chuck Cc Thom

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• Leaving the newspaper biz

  Published: August 19, 2007, 11:36 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times

  day I would work for the Los Angeles Times. The Square was like Yankee Stadium to me (a life-long Yankee fan) and I wanted to be part of the great team that worked there. I mention that only so I can offer this word to you, my friends: Despite all that may have happened around here in recent months, you all are still the core of a great

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