Entries from LAist tagged with 'sandiegounion'
October 23, 2007
Hear that sucking sound? The media's commitment to learning from its many recent mistakes in reporting ethics and the semantics thereof is again being sucked out of the collective memory hole. Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina survivors were initially referred to by numerous media outlets as "refugees." While "refugee" can be inferred to be descriptive of one who "takes refuge," the fact is that -- at least since the 1951 approval of the UN Convention......
Continue Reading "Fire Evacuees are Not 'Refugees'"May 30, 2007
Even with LeBron leading his Cavs to much needed victory in the Eastern Conference Finals Tuesday night, the biggest story in the NBA is a team who has not played a game in exactly four weeks. The Lakers offseason has just been too wildly entertaining to take a backseat to the actual action on the court. And it just got better. Early Tuesday, team owner Jerry Buss was arrested in Carlsbad for suspicion of drunk......
Continue Reading "Lakers Still Making News: Buss Busted, Bryant Bites Back & Shaq's Got His Back"May 27, 2007
There are very few companies putting out consistently funnier ads than Jack in the Box. Their latest is a jab at the Angus burger trend that was adopted by Burger King and Carl's Jr., and has recently been picked up by McDonald's. Instead of following the leader, Jack in the Box decided to promote their Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day campaign, hyping their breakfast-served-all-day advantage, and then they tried their......
Continue Reading "Carl's sues Jack over Angus"January 12, 2006
Big news — that conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez was hired by Investor's Business Daily after losing his gig with the LA Times — was reported last week, by LAObserved and others. But the other shoe, which is probably more financial than anything else, dropped this week, when the Copley News Service syndication outlet confirmed that it would continue to distribute Ramirez's right-leaning cartoons to newspapers around the country. Now, it's true that Ramirez won......
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