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If a swearing-in occurs with nobody watching...
Actually, KPCC's Frank Stoltze did take note of the quiet milestone that District Attorney Steve Cooley began his third term yesterday. Cooley is the first DA in 70 years to do that.
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Published 5 hours ago

Oh the humanity: watching Newsom
SF Weekly writer Benjamin Wachs is trying to watch all 7.5 hours of State of the City videos posted by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on his new YouTube channel. There is no way --no way in Hell -- that the people of the city that invented web 2.0 wanted 7.5 hours of old-school municipal...
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Published 6 hours ago

Blogs folding at L.A. Times
Steve Hymon's Bottleneck blog is the latest Times staff blog to be folded into L.A. Now, which the paper is trying to deepen and finally build up in hopes that it will become a go-to source of local news that will capture more external blog links and eyeballs. Sign of the (L.A.) Times: The LAT...
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Published 6 hours ago

Morning Buzz: Tuesday 12.2.08
The school board will discuss buying out Supt. David Brewer, who is under pressure from "key civic leaders" â€" Richard Riordan and Eli Broad among them â€" to leave the LAUSD. LAT A perennial Los Angeles debate returns: put LAPD officers where the crime is or where the taxes are paid? LAT It's...
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Published 6 hours ago

Gavin Newsom 1, Antonio 0
In the contest to become the mayor more likely to lose to Jerry Brown in the 2010 Democratic primary for governor, Gavin Newsom gets a leg up by releasing an interactive state-of-San Francisco video report on his official mayoral YouTube channel. Antonio Villaraigosa has, well, the city of Los...
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Published 23 hours ago

Afternoon shorts
Politics, media and assorted news briefs from the greater Los Angeles universe. Heavy fog in Sacramento aborted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's flight from Santa Monica, so he made his fiscal emergency declaration in Los Angeles. Capitol Alert, LATAlso: Fox 11's Phil Shuman spots the Governor...
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Published 23 hours ago

Best women bloggers of 2008
Susannah Breslin, the former Reverse Cowgirl turned Invisible Cowgirl (and back to Reverse Cowgirl) who we hadn't heard from much lately, does the honors and anoints BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin first. (Jardin used to blog a lot about Breslin, as I recall.) Others tapped as best women bloggers...
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Published 23 hours ago

Anchor opts out of AIDS ribbon
"KTLA Morning News" anchor Frank Buckley chose not to sport an AIDS ribbon on today's show, got an email from a viewer about it, and decided to address the issue in his official station blog. As most of you know by now, I'm pretty old-fashioned when it comes to the news. I think this is just...
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Published 23 hours ago

Berg out as Daily Journal editor
The Los Angeles Daily Journal newsroom was told this afternoon, in a very brief meeting, that editor Martin Berg is moving over to columnist and the new editor in chief is David Houston. He has been the San Francisco editor.
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Published a day ago

Jim O'Shea on newspapers
The previous editor of the Los Angeles Times wonders at the Nieman Watchdog whether newspapers will deliver "the rich, hard-hitting storytelling that gives the news its infrastructure of shoe-leather journalism from courthouses, police stations, legislatures and war zones, the kind of reporting...
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Published a day ago