Yamashiro, Hiltzik, Etc.
I got to hang out with the media types again on Friday night at the Yamashiro restaurant. I sat next to Chief Bratton, but didn’t talk to him much. He looked a little like he wanted to be somewhere...
View ArticleReporter Fired for Posting Anonymous Comments on the Internet
Allah sends the link to this story about a reporter fired for posting anonymous comments on the Internet: A daily newspaper fired its courthouse reporter after he posted anonymous opinions on the...
View ArticleHiltzik is Back in the LAT
The rumors were apparently true. Hiltzik’s first piece after his suspension is a sports-related investigation piece, about Elton Brand’s troubles as a movie producer.
View ArticleHiltzik Makes Wikipedia “Sock Puppet” Entry
Michael Hiltzik earns a mention in the Wikipedia entry for “sock puppet”: “Sock Puppet” is also an internet/weblog term for an anonymous alias duplicitously used in the comment section by someone who...
View ArticleStill Nothing from Baquet — But We’ll Be Working on the Transcript
Dean Baquet was back in the office as of Tuesday. So yesterday (Thursday) I sent him a friendly note asking again whether he’ll allow me to print his reason for declining to let me interview him about...
View ArticleHiltzik-Bashing from Mary K.
On his L.A. Times-sponsored blog, Michael Hiltzik once described Mary Katharine Ham as “a twentysomething Georgia grad who received postgraduate training in vacuous sarcasm from the Heritage...
View ArticleReaders’ Representative Blog Not Publishing Comments Saying Why Hiltzik Lost...
I told you Friday night that noted sock puppet Michael Hiltzik is getting his business column back. In her blog entry titled Michael Hiltzik to return to writing Business column, the Readers’...
View ArticleJamie Gold (Apparently Prompted by Patterico Readers) Did Explain Why Hiltzik...
From the “Things I Missed While on Vacation” File: L.A. Times Readers’ Rep Jamie Gold eventually did publish some critical comments about Michael Hiltzik’s return to column writing. (She did so only...
View ArticleHiltzik “Business” Column Plenty Political
We’ve always known that Michael Hiltzik, the sock-puppeting “business” columnist, has ambitions to be a purely political pundit. Let’s take a look at a couple of passages from his recent “business”...
View ArticleNofanofrepublicans Gives Readers the “Business”
Hey, look! It’s another “business” column by Michael Hiltzik that is actually a political rant against conservatives! Whaddya know!
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