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LA Times Admits Error in Three Stories, Fires Reporter
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/16/14 09:45PMMaggie Lange · 05/02/13 08:47AM
A Strong Early Candidate for 'Most Useless Piece of Election Day Journalism'
Hamilton Nolan · 11/06/12 09:44AM"Three reasons Obama will win; three reasons Romney will win"—Los Angeles Times headline, which accurately describes the story below, which is simply a list of "three reasons each candidate has to expect victory." (Which of these reasons are correct is not discussed.) What else is in the paper today?
L.A. Times Editor Finally Quits His Hellish Job
Hamilton Nolan · 12/13/11 05:10PMRuss Stanton is stepping down as editor of the LA Times, a job he's held for the past four years, through some of the shittiest layoff-plagued times in the history of the newspaper industry, and under the ownership of the thoroughly incompetent Tribune Co. He'll be replaced by Managing Editor Davan Maharaj. Perhaps the biggest story here is how small of a story this is, in 2012.
Alt-Weeklies Need Sex And Drugs to Survive
Hamilton Nolan · 11/03/11 01:59PMHung Actor Used to Be a Gay Prostitute
Brian Moylan · 10/03/11 03:05PMThomas Jane, who plays a heterosexual prostitute on HBO's Hung opened up his past as a gay hustler in his younger days to the L.A. Times. Talk about going method! Strangely enough, this is probably the first time gay men are going to get all upset about a hunky actor talking about having man-on-man action.