Ethan Lindsey

We've written about it before — how the LA Times Column One feature regularly disrupts our morning newspaper time. The stories are rarely more than well-written fluff, like, say for instance today's story on Czech marijuana. (Aside: What?) The sad part is, we're equally flabbergasted by the stories every single day; eastern European mary jane is more important than 90% of the subject matter covered. So here's an idea from today's suggestion box, courtesy...

In Socal, we're supposed to be on the side of Yahoo!, because their glitzy Santa Monica offices clearly show something like an investment, and/or knowledge, of La-la Land — and Hollywood. But in the big Google-DOJ Sh*%-storm making waves today, the good guy seems to be the Googlers, who are trying to protect users' privacy. Whereas our local boys did their best impression of the cowardly lion, caving to the pressure immediately. Simply put,...

Two quick news bits out of the LA Times before the weekend The LA Times has announced the schedule and lineup for its Festival of Books, which if you're a bookworm, is something like the event of the season. This year's author list is a tad less intriguing than last year's, but it's not half bad. And we won't really get to see what the festival's made of until the panel list is released in...

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...

There have long been rumors about a possible Los Angeles/Southern California all-news TV channel. 24/7 local television news makes sense -- from both a regional and business perspective. Not just for the biggest metropolitan areas; Seattle/Portland has one, Boston too. Over the weekend the NY Times did a nice piece on the success of Time Warner-owned NY1 (citing our big brother Gothamist's fandom). And the Gray Lady isn't the only one to see the...