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| Name: | LA Observed |
| Description: | Los Angeles media, news, books and sense of place |
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25 most recent entries:
Seach for Metrolink train crash victims ends in Chatsworth; 25th dies (Sep 13 2008 23:35 GMT)
Paul Long, an English teacher at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, died this afternoon after being taken off life support at County-USC Medical Center....
Chatsworth death toll at least 24, engineer to blame * (Sep 13 2008 18:05 GMT)
The 18th victim, possibly the Union Pacific freight train engineer, was pulled from the scene about 8:45 am. Authorities say that more bodies remain in...
Officer Spree Desha, 35, dies in Metrolink train * (Sep 13 2008 07:24 GMT)
The Los Angeles Police Department officer who died in the Chatsworth train collision was identified by the LAPD as Spree Desha, a seven-year veteran who...
LAPD officer among the dead * (Sep 13 2008 04:56 GMT)
Channel 7 says an unidentified Los Angeles Police Department officer has been confirmed dead in the Chatsworth Metrolink crash. Updates from media monitoring: * Rescue...
Blood donations requested (Sep 13 2008 04:51 GMT)
First news round-up, second news round-up, media scan. Blood donations of all types are needed in the wake of the Chatsworth train crash, UCLA Medical...
Chatsworth crash: media scan (Sep 13 2008 04:40 GMT)
First news round-up, second news round-up. At 8:30 pm, Channels 2 and 7 are the only Los Angeles TV stations still airing full coverage. The...
Family information for Chatsworth crash (Sep 13 2008 04:17 GMT)
Information on victims will be gathered and distributed to families at Chatsworth High School, at De Soto Avenue and Devonshire Street. Thats's also where families...
At least 10 dead in Chatsworth train crash* (Sep 13 2008 03:28 GMT)
Picking up from the earlier roundup: * It's a bit clearer now what probably happened. A source with good connections in the transit agencies emails...
Bad Metrolink crash in Chatsworth, at least 6 dead * (Sep 13 2008 01:01 GMT)
An outbound Metrolink train headed for Moorpark collided with a freight train on the Chatsworth side of Santa Susana Pass. Cars are off the tracks...
George Putnam, TV news figure was 94 (Sep 12 2008 16:25 GMT)
L.A. Radio.com reports that George Putnam died this morning, citing Putnam's long-time friend and producer Chuck Wilder. Putnam moved to Los Angeles in 1951 and...
Sarah Palin has science on her side (Sep 12 2008 06:42 GMT)
Here's the most interesting blog post I read all day. Political scientists at UCLA who asked students to rate the faces of hundreds of American...
Fade out, not fade away (Sep 12 2008 04:55 GMT)
Over at the LA Observed Script Project, Eric Estrin writes a working screenwriter's two sweetest words: fade out. In the seven or eight months since...
Morning Buzz: Thursday 9.11.08 (Sep 11 2008 17:05 GMT)
Local media figures David Hume Kennerly and David Devoss (as well as Ted Koppel and others) show up in today's opener of a three-part...
Two more homers for Manny (Sep 11 2008 09:18 GMT)
That's 14 homers and 40 RBIs for Manny Ramirez in 38 games with the Dodgers, who are now 3½ games in front of the second-place...
Alice Broude, Redwood waitress was 89 (Sep 11 2008 08:59 GMT)
Every big newspaper used to have a bar nearby where reporters stayed too late, editors brought new hires to get acquainted over drinks, and Pulitzers...
Villaraigosa's calendar reviewed (Sep 11 2008 08:04 GMT)
During his last campaign for mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa slammed Jim Hahn for not releasing his appointments calendar. Now the LA Weekly has pored over Villaraigosa's...
Back to the future at NYT (Sep 11 2008 07:24 GMT)
The New York Times is re-grouping its media reporters from the second-floor Business desk and the fourth-floor Culture desk into a new mid-way pod on...
Zell looking to...buy? (Sep 11 2008 06:55 GMT)
Even the original item sounds skeptical, but the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street page speculates today that Sam Zell may share the newspaper...
More reactions to LAT magazine (Sep 11 2008 06:35 GMT)
The NYT's T Magazine also noticed the resemblance between its cover and the Los Angeles Times Magazine cover. (My post from yesterday.) The LAT mag's...
Morning Buzz: Wednesday 9.10.08 (Sep 10 2008 16:58 GMT)
Gov. Schwarzenegger is quoted in Der Spiegel saying he has almost no relationship with "out there" California Republican leaders and praises the Obama campaign,...
Dreadlocks fever (Sep 10 2008 08:38 GMT)
OK, let's face it, the Angels are the better baseball team in SoCal and may prove to be the best anywhere this year. But Manny...
Hats off to Linda Deutsch (Sep 10 2008 08:24 GMT)
Poor Linda Deutsch. AP's legendary Los Angeles-based trial reporter is back on the O.J. Simpson beat. She is in Las Vegas for the start of...
Channel 5 moving into Times, editor says (Sep 10 2008 08:03 GMT)
I finally listened to the whole interview that Los Angeles Times Editor Russ Stanton gave the Daily Sundial at Cal State Northridge, linked in Monday's...
SoCal media notes (Sep 10 2008 07:58 GMT)
Item 1: The Register may go tabloid (in size and shape, not necessarily in mentality), Publisher Terry Horne said today. He says it's 50-50 the...
Acres of Books sets the date (Sep 10 2008 07:49 GMT)
October 18 will be the final day for the venerable Long Beach book store. Everything is 50% off as of now, with further markdowns to...
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