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I had to move this to a hidden pocket. My daily distress from newspapers means either I am acutely sensitive or plumb nuts.
In case it’s the former I don’t want it to be so easily seen.
The LATimes is a nostalgia paper. July 4th front page has a long photo-appended thought about the San Bernardino shootings of seven months/two days ago.
People are ‘healing,’ excepting those who aren’t.
Two pages later, after Saturday’s middle-east mass shooting, a long rehash of the previous day’s story - the former‘news.
Newspapers are simply knee-jerk outlets for popular sentiment, meaning liberal. I’m liberal, but I resent that slant being presented as factual.
Here’s the blather:
These are the Times of L.A.
6-1 Hed writer for story about the renovation (No!) of a downtrodden downtown hotel overreaches, calling the dying milieu “infamous.” Calm down, it isn’t Pearl Harbor ...
6-6 Muhammad Ali died. Interview with daughter, she says he was great.
6-7 Steven Zeitchik gets a byline for the important news that New York Kanye fans rioted on the rumor he would do a drop-in show.
6-8 The subhead “Shakespeare - dead, white and male - still matters deeply” should make people of all twelve genders puke.
6-10 A LATimes-backed poll found that people with jobs supported an increase in the minimum wage. Has any dog more plainly bit a man?
6-12 Surfers in Palos Verdes fight over turf. We’re drowning in beach stories. Editors from out of town? Landlocked locals do not care ...
6-16 The 1976 “Night Stalker” crime wave is still unsolved. Now new news that day.
Opening line, Melissa Healy, about cancer’s likely tie to coffee temp: “Some like it hot.” Jettisoned cliche-police sob ...
Orlando. Half page feature - relatives of dead have sadness in common. It’s true! ...
6-20 Compulsory week-later story of candles being held at Orlando memorial. As ever ...
A woman suing for rape in Germany (!) is not only a TV personality but also an “aspiring model.” Under-reach or over- reach? ...
6-21 Matt Hamilton, in a story full of facts, veers off to tell us that a vehicle involved in an actor’s death being recalled by its manufacturer was CONFIRMED by LAPD Captain Beverly Lewis. Many other facts appeared: why this plug?
6-23 Sports reporter Zach Helfand intros a Dodger manager’s statement with “fewer truisms have been uttered than this.” Impossible to parse ...
Big news: teens drinking and drugging on a party bus in Marin County. It’d be news if they weren’t ...
If you need to vomit, find this hed about race tension in Michigan: “Do black police chiefs matter?” Ship of fools ...
The second of three feature articles this month about Malibu and surfers.
A week after the Orlando shooting, a doctor suggests tolerance, in a hole where news belongs ...
Veronice Roche marks the “anniversary” of an unsolved disappearance. Un news ...
6-26 Half-page, an old woman lives alone in rural Arizona. (There are none in L.A.) From the LAT “data team.".
New York, New YAWK Times
5-20 Stephen Holden, reviewing a docu about Anthony Wiener, sniffs that Wiener used “the preposterous pseudonym” of Carlos Danger. Sounds right for a sex site. Everyone's a critic ...
6-1 Death of a gorilla prompted a chorus of online criticism from “animal rights activists.” Imagine. ...
6-2 Airbag flaws infect “at least” four automakers’ cars, says Hiroko Tabuchi. Why not wait and give the entire picture? ...
6-12 Huge half-page Dixie Chicks article - they’re back and they’re “unrepentant.” Sinners?
6-13 “Hamilton” award-winners “Denounce Hate.” Who asked them? They something special? They’re actors, crying for attention. “Love me” ...
6-15 A guy’s gun went off in his pocket at a Zabar’s store, to no harm. But Rick Rojas and Emily Palmer stretch it to a near full column by talking to people in the store, explaining what the store is (!), and describing the locale (Upper West Side, capitalized). A lot of ado about a little.
Critic James Poniewozik devotes a near half-page to tv performer Samantha Bee’s certainly not-unique unhappiness about the Orlando event. He owe her publicist a favor?
The Dixie Chicks (see 6-12) co-did a show and it got a half-page rave, opening, unfortunately, with Jon Carmanica’s peer-dictated remorse about Orlando. Like Jimmy Durante said, Everybody wants to get into the act ...
Noah Remnick’s report that a guy got 40 years for killing a gay man opens with what Durante said ...
6-17 Holland Carter’s Weekend Arts piece about a fashion artist opens with Carter’s regret about the Orlando shootings. Like Jimmy Durante said ...
6-18 A memorial for year-old South Carolina church killings covers a half page. Taking the LATimes’ cue that rehash trumps news ...
6-19 Fernanda Santos gets big space to say that Phoenix is hot, but getting hep. While “someone posted” and “one scholar” in the leadoff got me sizzling like a Phoenix sidewalk, the piece is a quaint long down-look at provincials’ efforts to make groovy their city.
6-23 Aaron E. Campbell writes that when the onerous Tuskegee studies were revealed, mistrust “spiked.” Well, if it rose then dropped sharply it’s a small matter ...
Noah Remnick tells us that an exonerated defendant wore a “crisp, white Versace shirt.” Crisp, like ironed? Bright? Crackilng? Why not describe everyone’s garb?
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