What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, February 8, 2013.
Tag: Los Angeles Times
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Murdoch, McCarthy—who’s the greater menace to the dignity of Chicago journalism?
Trouble in Chicago: Sun-Times adds Jenny McCarthy while Murdoch reported kicking tires of Tribune
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The forgotten issue in the presidential campaign
The African-American child poverty rate is severely high and climbing, but neither Romney nor Obama is talking about it
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Best of 2011, number 6: Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
J.R. Jones on Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, his number 6 movie of 2011.
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Rejection versus suppression
Katharine Hayhoe’s message of climate change is doubted by conservative Christians but not shunned.
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Somebody’s still drinking the Chris Holmes Kool-Aid
Former Chicagoan Chris Holmes continues to snow people like a human blizzard.
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James O’Shea narrates the Tribune Company’s epic collapse
Days before my review copy of James O’Shea’s The Deal From Hell came in the mail, a friend who’d read an excerpt of O’Shea’s account of the Tribune Company-Times Mirror merger and its calamitous aftermath e-mailed me to rip the author. At issue: O’Shea’s failure to be up-front about the friendship between his ex-boss Ann […]
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On cracking open “The Deal From Hell”
On reading James O’Shea’s “The Merger From Hell.”
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Pay Gap for Doctors Widening
Women doctors are making less than male doctors, but we should be glad about this.
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$180 Million Is Not Chump Change If You’ve Got to Give It Back
If the Tribune Company had put off filing for bankruptcy by just three weeks, would it have saved a group of past and present managers $120 million?
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I Think I Finally Figured Out What’s Been Bugging Me About the NYT Piece on TribCo
Sam Zell and Randy Michaels get thwacked in David Carr’s immediately infamous NYT piece… but what about everyone else?
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She Meant Well
An opportunity to work for nothing infuriates young journalism grads who want to be paid.