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more about #losangelestimes more comments → iplaudius: I will not reply directly to the comment about prison sex, because I do not wish to promote it. Suffice it to say that not all gay men enjoy musical t... more » BadUncle: I just want to know how he has access to the web in prison. and, uh, pube sheets? ick. more » HenryEvil: Whatever keeps Roger Avary away from writing the Silent Hill sequel... more » skahammer: James Frey says only wannabes and pretenders get exposed by the LAT. Big-timers make it all the way to Oprah. more » drunkexpatwriter: He and Quentin are now going to be able to write an awesome screenplay for Chained Heat 5. more » dandles: I wonder if he's facebooked any of his fellow inmates yet? more » lobstr: wow.. 1 year in prison and 5 years probation for vehicular manslaughter. being an academy award winner means much more than the little man statue! more » krasny: social networking fucks up another person because they shared just a little too much. more » MissNormaDesmond: Oh, shut the fuck up. You killed someone and you're bitching about having to do time like everybody else, and trying to make like some kind of hero ... more » Claire Buoyant: How do people tweet from jail anyway? When new inmates are admitted nowadays, are they issued their prison stripes, a toothbrush, and a BlackBerry? more » CrayonSmoothie: I wouldn't go so far as to call the brother a liar, I mean he got a credibility problem. What's the nigger gonna do? He's a writer. more » Trai_Dep: I just want to know... Where's the watch? more » MrInBetween: When public officials feared people who bought ink by the barrel, this kind of journalistic hubris/hypocrisy might anger people. But now, Skelton's co... more » Magister: Good point about the hypocrisy, but his complaint really doesn't have a lot of merit, anyway. It appears that this records release was a one time eve... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The past 100 years or so of more or less objective news might be an anomaly #journalismism more » -
#plottwist
Pulp Fiction Screenwriter Tweets From Jail, Ends Up Re-Imprisoned
Jailhouse tweets: harrowing, educational, and a bad idea if you're dodging the terms of your sentence. In the midst of his prison term for a fatal DUI, Roger Avary blew the whistle on his own short-lived accidental freedom via Twitter. More » -
#hypocrites
Reporter Doesn't Want His Super-Secret Interview Technique Outed
California Attorney General Jerry Brown's communications director illegally recorded Brown's conversations with reporters, an act that made the conversations themselves subject to California's public records law. The L.A. Times and other papers published them, which makes one reporter very uncomfortable. More » -
#jobs
The Future of Journalism's in a Politician's Pet Newsroom
The recent blows to print journalism are great news for politicians: They can afford to own news outlets again, just like in the colonial era! Even local politicians can afford their own newsrooms. More » -
#media
How Newspapers Are Wording Their Own Obituaries
If anyone else is weirded out by newspapers trying to dispassionately report news of their decline, look away now. More » -
#memos
More Online Talent Departs the L.A. Times
The Los Angeles Times is losing its online managing editor to CNN.com, editor Russ Stanton confirmed in a staff email, reprinted below. The departure marks the further dismantling of a team that relaunched the site starting about five years ago. More » -
#marijuana
New California Wildfires Sparked By Weed Farm Fire
Authorities say that the recent outbreak of California wildfires started in the cooking area of an illegal marijuana farm run by Mexican drug lords. The "La Brea fire" has already burned 75,000 acres in Santa Barbara County. [LA Times] -
#firings
Disney Finally Kicks 'The Bens' to the Curb For Sucking
In a move sure to inspire more film-geek loin-warming than Monica Bellucci, Disney has fired the unbelievably horrible Ben Lyons, who pronounced I Am Legend "one of the greatest movies ever made," and Ben Mankiewicz, as At the Movies co-hosts. More » -
#journalismism
LA Times Already Planning to Sell Out Again
The fake front page story in Thursday's Los Angeles Times was a PR disaster; staffers are signing a petition calling it "embarrassing and demoralizing." Naturally, then, management is planning a sequel. More » -
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#printisdead
Is the Los Angeles Times Cribbing from Wikipedia?
Whether they admit it or not, Wikipedia is every reporter's crutch for finding mundane details on deadline. Most know to cover up their laziness. But not this Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent. More » -
#journalismism
Foursquare Founder Tells Two Tales About Filched Dodgeball Code
Too busy partying in Austin, Dennis Crowley never replied to our questions about whether Foursquare was built on code owned by Google. He's denied it to other press, but we hear he's telling buddies otherwise. More » -
#losangelestimes
LAT to California: Drop Dead [Reuters]
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#mediacrack
Print Media Is Officially Scary Now
Mailing it in for Hamilton Nolan, who's, er, on assignment, I'm here with your post-inaugural, Nobama media column. More » -
#journalismism
The Rules For Interviewing Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper prefers to address questions about his sexuality with on-camera winks, nudges and the like. There's a reason the CNN anchor is not asked for more direct answers in formal interviews. More » -
#losangelestimes
A Newspaper's Online Fairy Tale
The editors and writers of the Los Angeles Times could shut off the presses tomorrow and live off its website, media pundit Jeff Jarvis claims. But the numbers don't add up. More »
