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Another year, more ridiculous opinions from the Los Angeles Times. This one is all about the fact that key organizers of the Women’s March have been exposed as rank anti-semites. That ought to...

https://patterico.com/2019/01/05/same-old-dog-trainer-in-2019/

Evan Halper of the Dog Trainer yesterday treated us to the story of one Susie Tompkins Buell, a San Francisco matron who has parlayed her vast wealth and a friendship with Bill and Hillary! Clin...

https://patterico.com/2016/06/04/stop-the-presses-mega-wealthy-but-needy-san-francisco-lefty-loves-the-clintons/

Oh, they would deny it. But that’s what they’re doing. The L.A. Times ran a piece on December 12 titled The shooting victim at the center of the debate about politics, religion and free speec...

https://patterico.com/2015/12/14/l-a-times-tries-to-draw-moral-equivalence-between-san-bernardino-killers-and-one-of-their-outspoken-victims/

It’s a tough job keeping these folks accurate, but that’s why we’re here. That error by Steve Lopez regarding the number of mass killings in the U.S. has been corrected: FOR THE RECORD Mass...

https://patterico.com/2015/12/14/steve-lopez-error-on-mass-shootings-corrected/

Richard Serrano reports in the L.A. Times: San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging he...

https://patterico.com/2015/12/14/l-a-times-article-cites-san-bernardino-shooters-pro-jihad-social-media-postings-but-fails-to-mention-obamadhs-policy-of-ignoring-social-media-to-avoid-bad-public-relations/

Jon Healey, a member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, wrote an opinion piece on Friday which brilliantly trolls progressives by pretending to make an argument that only the most patheti...

https://patterico.com/2015/06/14/dog-trainer-editorial-writer-brilliantly-parodies-obamabot-media/

The Los Angeles Times (affectionately known here as the Dog Trainer; this is Patterico’s first recorded use of the term for you site historians) has just this afternoon finally deigned to ment...

https://patterico.com/2014/11/16/the-dog-trainer-finally-acknowledges-grubergate/

The IRS’s targeting of conservative groups has at least one unabashed fan: Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times. As evidence mounts that the IRS fast-tracked applications by left-leaning or...

https://patterico.com/2013/05/15/l-a-timess-michael-hiltzik-hooray-for-the-irss-targeting-of-tea-party-groups/

Ace, on the rumors floating about that the Koch brothers are considering buying the L.A. Times: If they buy this thing, I’d suggest they ask Mickey Kaus and Patrick Frey for some critiques of t...

https://patterico.com/2013/03/18/kochs-to-buy-lat/

The top article on the L.A. Times web page is a scare story about how awfully awfully terrible those horrible sequester “cuts” (which are not really cuts) will be: When it comes to the nation...

https://patterico.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-scares-readers-re-those-awful-sequestration-non-cut-cuts/

(Note: “Now You Tell Us”™ is a semi-regular feature of this site, documenting examples of the Los Angeles Times’s disclosure of negative information about Barack Obama that didn’t come ...

https://patterico.com/2013/01/10/now-you-tell-us-part-4-obama-not-getting-big-money-out-of-politics-as-he-promised-to-do/

The L.A. Times has a piece titled Tough gun control laws linked to lower death rates. The piece touts the findings from a “San Francisco-based policy center on gun control laws”: A San Franci...

https://patterico.com/2013/01/05/l-a-times-cites-claim-by-pro-gun-control-group-as-if-it-came-from-some-neutral-policy-center-on-guns/

(Note: “The Power of the Jump”™ is a semi-regular feature of this site, documenting examples of the Los Angeles Times’s use of its back pages to hide information that its editors don’t ...

https://patterico.com/2013/01/01/the-power-of-the-jump-the-overaggressive-cops-who-shot-the-handcuffed-guy-on-the-ground/

Why did Republicans lose? Republicans can debate that all they like, but the L.A. Times news editors have decided the only theory worth mentioning is that it’s the fault of the Tea Party: As a ...

https://patterico.com/2012/11/13/l-a-times-editors-have-news-pages-push-theory-that-the-voters-have-rejected-the-tea-party/

James Rainey says we should be thanking the L.A. Times for withholding the Khalidi tape — because if they hadn’t promised to do so, we never would have heard about it in the first place: The ...

https://patterico.com/2012/09/25/james-rainey-you-should-thank-the-l-a-times-for-withholding-the-khalidi-tape/

Is disgraced former L.A. Times reporter Chuck Philips trying to use specious legal claims and toothless workplace threats to wipe evidence of his biased reporting off of the Internet? You be the ...

https://patterico.com/2012/08/10/former-l-a-times-reporter-chuck-philips-threatens-a-baseless-copyright-lawsuit-against-patterico-in-attempt-to-get-embarrassing-letters-removed-from-the-internet/

James Rainey talks about Breitbart.com today, and it’s the type of hack job you’ve come to expect from that guy. Here’s a sample: Breitbart made his name by sowing outrage. He promoted the ...

https://patterico.com/2012/08/01/l-a-timess-rainey-snarks-about-breitbart-com/

Having just pointed out that Obama didn’t seem to propose new gun control legislation after Aurora, it’s incumbent on me to point that, well, he’s still not. But he’s trying to sound like...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/26/obama-proposes-no-new-gun-control-but-pretends-to/

OH MY GOD THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET IS MELTING AND IT HASN’T BEEN THIS BAD IN 132 YEARS!!!!!!! During a four-day period earlier this month, 47% of the surface of the Greenland ice sheet melted, b...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/25/more-deception-from-the-l-a-times-on-global-warming/

It can be revealed this morning that, in a startling experiment that will be debated for years to come, the editors of the Los Angeles Times have temporarily ceded control of their web site and f...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/18/exclusive-l-a-times-turns-editorial-control-of-its-news-pages-over-to-obama-campaign-staffers/

David Horsey at the L.A. Times: Sure, you may know which man — Mitt Romney or Barack Obama — you want to see running the country, but which one would you have wanted to know in high school? W...

https://patterico.com/2012/05/15/l-a-times-obama-vs-romney-amiable-occasional-pothead-vs-scissor-wielding-homophobic-bully/

There is a puff piece in today’s L.A. Times titled: President Obama’s influence on gay marriage will be tested. His change, we are told, is historic and valuable: David Mixner, a longtime Dem...

https://patterico.com/2012/05/11/l-a-times-swoons-over-obama-evolution-without-mentioning-prior-devolution/

The L.A. Times reports a Very Important Story that just happens to play into Obama talking points: Romney stands silent as Obama is accused of treason. Mitt Romney drew criticism Monday after he ...

https://patterico.com/2012/05/08/l-a-times-romney-must-correct-the-trolls/

So the editors of the Los Angeles Times decided a few days ago to publish inflammatory photos of American soldiers with dead Afghan suicide bombers, despite the military’s deep concern that pub...

https://patterico.com/2012/04/30/l-a-times-we-must-give-our-readers-all-the-information-even-if-it-puts-the-troops-at-risk-but-not-if-it-hurts-our-agenda-our-endangers-our-own-lives/

Everybody at the water cooler at the L.A. Times knows that so-called “wedge issues” are bad things — and that, as such, they have traditionally been used only by Republicans. Today, they ar...

https://patterico.com/2012/04/29/l-a-times-obama-using-tactic-formerly-thought-by-liberal-newspaper-editors-to-be-the-exclusive-province-of-the-gop-the-dreaded-wedge-issue/

In reporting on an initiative to abolish the death penalty, the L.A. Times tells us about the “rowing numbers” of people — conservatives, even! — who oppose capital punishment: Growing nu...

https://patterico.com/2012/04/24/l-a-times-uses-classic-liberal-bias-techniques-in-article-on-death-penalty-initiative/

The L.A. Times tells us Romneycare is “similar” to Obamacare (only much, much scarier!): Romney’s plan follows a lead set by President George W. Bush, who unsuccessfully pushed for a health...

https://patterico.com/2012/04/23/l-a-times-romneys-constitutional-health-care-plan-is-just-like-obamas-unconstitutional-plan/

David Bernstein correctly notes a more accurate title for this page one propaganda would be “Lawyers Who Voted for Obama Want his Health Care Law to be Upheld“: It turns out that the only �...

https://patterico.com/2012/04/01/signs-of-supreme-court-activism-worry-reagan-administration-lawyers/

Careful when you click on those L.A. Times links these days. You get only 15 stories a month, and then they’ll charge you. John Seiler says they’re trying to commit suicide. The L.A. Times wo...

https://patterico.com/2012/03/09/is-the-los-angeles-times-committing-suicide/

The Los Angeles Times recently opened a story on climate change opinion in the following manner: After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change,...

https://patterico.com/2012/03/08/los-angeles-times-distorts-evidence-on-public-opinion-regarding-global-warming/

Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha. OK. Gimme a second. All right. In a fascinating change of . . . Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. The Los Angeles Times will begin charging re...

https://patterico.com/2012/02/24/l-a-times-to-charge-for-content/

As we continue to clear the decks at the end of a busy week, we thank Colonel Haiku for the pointer to this absurd L.A. Times editorial about the joys of higher gas prices. This one deserves the ...

https://patterico.com/2012/02/24/l-a-times-editors-upset-gas-costs-so-much-ride-a-moped-idiot/

Today is a very special day, friends. It is the day when two historical themes of this blog finally intersect. Theme 1: This blog has diligently chronicled the intrepid quest of Greg Packer to be...

https://patterico.com/2012/02/18/greg-packers-biggest-win-ever/

People sometimes ask me why I don’t blog much about the L.A. TImes any more. Is it because I’m too busy? Or has the paper gotten better? Let me show you today’s front page and ask you if it...

https://patterico.com/2012/01/25/l-a-times-obama-finally-promises-to-milk-rich-guys-like-romney/

How about the fact that a witness says the gunman was shouting “Allahu Akbar”? A witness named April Manlo says at 2:37: He was running over there. And he sh — I heard a — yeah, yes, on t...

https://patterico.com/2011/12/10/whats-missing-from-this-l-a-times-account-of-the-hollywood-shooting/

The home page of the L.A. Times tells us there is video of violent behavior at Occupy Oakland. Look at the bottom right of this screenshot: Well, I’m interested in that. So I click through and ...

https://patterico.com/2011/11/02/editor-shortage-showing-at-l-a-times-part-2/

James Oliphant of the L.A. Times reports: One of Herman Cain’s accusers wants to be heard. Her lawyer told the Washington Post on Tuesday that she is ready to tell her side of the ongoing saga ...

https://patterico.com/2011/11/01/editor-shortage-showing-at-l-a-times/

Because California state government has so much money that legislators hardly know what to do with it all, state senators passed a bill today to give financial aid to illegal immigrants who are c...

https://patterico.com/2011/08/31/l-a-times-loves-them-some-financial-aid-to-illegal-immigrants/

The Instapundit posted about that Hollywood block party that got out of hand. What one correspondent of mine found interesting was the way that the L.A. Times focused on the behavior of the polic...

https://patterico.com/2011/07/29/l-a-times-portrayal-of-block-party-focus-on-police-not-rioters/

Two sources tell me this is a genuine internal memo from L.A. Times editor Ashley Dunn. Comrades: As most of you have heard, there were layoffs today. We’ve all been through this before, but it...

https://patterico.com/2011/07/28/l-a-times-editor-encourages-ass-whipping/

Can’t say I’m too devastated. After all the dishonest nonsense that guy pulled over the years, it’s about time. UPDATE: Commenter angeleno says I lack “grace” over this event. He is rig...

https://patterico.com/2011/07/27/layoffs-at-l-a-times-tim-rutten-gone/

After police visited the home of an underage girl who corresponded with Weiner on Friday, I asked my wife to hand me the front page of the L.A. Times on Saturday (the free edition from our hotel)...

https://patterico.com/2011/06/13/sarah-palin-the-dirt-emerges-from-her-emails11-plus-ziegler-bags-on-her-potential-candidacy/

Another reminder of how the L.A. Times distorts the news. The story is simple. Woman babysits a newborn baby and physically abuses the child. She fractures the child’s skull, and breaks his rib...

https://patterico.com/2011/05/01/how-the-l-a-times-slants-crime-news/

On accident: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Via William Jacobson.

https://patterico.com/2011/04/04/l-a-times-tells-the-truth/

What’s missing from this L.A. Times story about the Wisconsin situation? Stoking Republican efforts to check union power across the country, Wisconsin’s state Assembly sent Gov. Scott Walker ...

https://patterico.com/2011/03/11/predictable-no-mention-of-death-threats-in-l-a-times-wisconsin-story/

Well, they corrected one of Tim Rutten’s misquotations. One! Political novel: Tim Rutten’s Feb. 2 Op-Ed column about Simon & Schuster’s promotion of the political novel “O” cited two pa...

https://patterico.com/2011/03/04/one-rutten-misquote-corrected-one-to-go/

It was just three days ago that we had the post titled Tim Rutten Needs to Learn How to Quote Accurately. How ironic. Jeffrey Goldberg has the scoop, and you should read it all. Here is the key p...

https://patterico.com/2011/03/01/tim-rutten-needs-to-learn-how-to-quote-accurately-2/

Matt Welch catches Tim Rutten with his pants down. Not a pretty image, I’ll grant you. Here is a quote from a New York Times story: State records also show that Koch Industries, their energy an...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/26/tim-rutten-needs-to-learn-how-to-quote-accurately/

From Tim Rutten: The Huffington Post is a brilliantly packaged product with a particular flair for addressing the cultural and entertainment tastes of its overwhelmingly liberal audience. To gras...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/09/quote-of-the-day-54/

I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but . . . . . . but Bradley J. Fikes passes along a link to Michael Hiltzik’s latest column titled What California should learn from the Texas budget c...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/09/michael-hiltziks-hackery-in-making-texas-sound-as-bad-as-california/

The city of Escondido in California is concentrating on deporting illegal aliens with a criminal record. If you cover this story, you can choose to illustrate the effects by giving anecdotes conc...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/05/l-a-times-how-dare-escondido-target-illegal-aliens-who-have-done-nothing-but-be-illegal-aliens-and-er-drunk-drivers-and-child-molesters/

And “partisan” means bad. So don’t talk about limited government, unless you want to be seen as a bad partisan. That is the message of the L.A. Times coverage of a Sarah Palin speech paying...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/05/a-case-study-in-l-a-times-bias-palins-support-for-reagans-small-government-vision-labeled-partisan/

In a recent column titled Lap-Band maker Allergan wants it both ways, Michael Hiltzik rails against advertising for the Lap Band: Another concern is the high-powered marketing of Lap-Band surgery...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/05/l-a-times-wants-it-both-ways/

The L.A. Times reports: GOP in a bind over healthcare repeal vote. The deck headline: “House Republican leaders are eager to fulfill their promise to vote to repeal the legislation, but taking ...

https://patterico.com/2011/01/12/l-a-times-health-care-repeal-too-divisive-what-with-our-new-need-for-civil-rhetoric/

I’m really tired of this. But if you don’t refute this nonsense, the bastards win. So: Tomorrow’s L.A. Times will drag out the nonsense pathetically trying to link Jared Loughner to right-w...

https://patterico.com/2011/01/11/l-a-times-loughners-ideology-rooted-in-far-right/

Last March, Jack Dunphy noted an L.A. Times article that consulted legal experts on the all-important question of whether Justice Thomas would be allowed to have a wife who is a political activis...

https://patterico.com/2011/01/05/l-a-times-article-on-prop-8-rulings-omits-mention-of-reinhardts-pathetic-defense-of-his-refusal-to-recuse-himself/

Which, it isn’t. It is simply maintaining the current tax structure to allow people to keep more of their own money. That doesn’t stop the editors from spinning like a top: A top advisor to P...

https://patterico.com/2010/12/12/l-a-times-calls-extension-of-tax-cuts-spending/

I am going to refrain from commenting on the following case except for noting evidence of a possible error by the Los Angeles Times. Here is the Times report: To hear him tell his story, John Wes...

https://patterico.com/2010/12/02/los-angeles-times-possibly-errs-in-describing-third-strikers-record/

It’s quite a sleight of hand, to be sure. But for a paper that shills for Democrats on a daily basis, turning reality upside down is second nature: In a surprise shift, Senate Minority Leader M...

https://patterico.com/2010/11/15/l-a-times-manages-to-portray-mcconnell-as-following-obamas-lead-on-earmarks/

Their headline actually reads as follows: “Pelosi’s Effectiveness Is Not Rewarded.” No, I am not making that up: Note that one of the authors is Official Gusher Faye Fiore, the same person ...

https://patterico.com/2010/11/04/l-a-times-poor-nancy-pelosi-just-doesnt-get-any-credit/

Remember that L.A. Times story suggesting that tea party candidates were prone to saying goofy things? Their central example: Sharron Angle. I give you Sharron Angle’s opponent, Harry Reid: Q. ...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/11/more-confirmation-of-l-a-times-thesis-that-only-tea-party-candidates-say-goofy-things/

Here is the typical format for an L.A. Times article on a political contest between a Democrat and a Republican: Headline Disfavoring Republican in Bold Somewhat longer headline in italics, calle...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/06/l-a-times-headlines-perpetrate-outrageous-distortion-of-campaign-finance-figures-in-california-gubernatorial-election/

In a fascinating David Carr column about the trainwreck that is Tribune Company’s management, we find these nuggets about the dying Los Angeles Times: While its television division has since do...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/06/l-a-timess-fake-front-pages-nothing-new-and-doing-nothing-to-save-the-paper/

Tim Rutten writes another column that leaves the reader screaming in frustration: What really ought to concern people most are Diaz Santillan’s allegations that during the nine years she worked...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/04/tim-rutten-whitmans-firing-of-illegal-maid-an-odd-way-to-treat-her/

When L.A. Times print readers received their paper last Wednesday, here is what they saw: a screaming banner headline that appeared to be about a terror attack on a TV network: It turned out to b...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/04/l-a-times-sells-last-remaining-shreds-of-credibility/

Right. And Democrats never make any odd statements at all. I find it amusing that the paper holds up Sharron Angle as the paradigmatic example of a candidate who says oddball things: Who is she r...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/04/l-a-times-republican-candidates-sure-say-some-goofy-things/

The L.A. Times has a front-page story about the Meg Whitman/maid affair that darkly references a “letter” that is supposed to hurt Whitman’s position somehow. Here is the passage about the ...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/01/l-a-times-fails-to-give-readers-proper-context-regarding-letter-to-whitman/

If you believe the poll, it shows Boxer up 51 to 43. The problem, as Allahpundit explains, is that the sample is completely skewed. Exit polls from Obama’s 2008 win showed Californians breaking...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/26/l-a-times-uses-skewed-sample-to-show-fiorina-way-down/

Yet another falsehood debunked: Judicial logjam: An Aug. 31 article and chart in Section A about judicial vacancies said that the 47% rate of confirmation of President Obama’s nominations to th...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/24/l-a-times-corrects-error-on-judicial-confirmations-but-why-so-long/

I sat down ready to criticize the content of this L.A. Times article about the Contract with America, or Pledge for America, or whatever they’re calling the latest retread of 1994. And I still ...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/23/l-a-times-article-on-pledge-to-america-filled-with-terrible-writing-and-worse-analysis/

You will remember my first raising the issue here, and Ed Whelan providing the relevant figures here. I finally wrote the Readers’ Representative, and heard back from her today: Mr. Frey, I jus...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/22/l-a-times-to-correct-error-on-confirmation-of-judges/

L.A. Times, September 21, 2010: Jobless workers dispute claim that unemployment benefits foster complacency The idea that extended benefits discourage people from seeking work is an insult, unemp...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/21/conservatives-at-l-a-times-insult-unemployed/

As with Prop. 8, I oppose the policy but can’t imagine the decision is legally correct. The L.A. Times has more here. UPDATE: That L.A. Times blog entry has the following dubious claim: Despite...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/09/federal-judge-dont-ask-dont-tell-unconstitutional/

I e-mailed Ed Whelan my post on the L.A. Times‘s distortion of statistics on judicial confirmation rates. Whelan followed up, and now provides evidence that Carol J. Williams, a reporter who on...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/09/more-on-the-l-a-timess-distortion-of-obamas-judicial-confirmation-statistics/

L.A. Times reporter Carol J. Williams. Is there any legal story she can’t screw up? Times editors have an editorial today that touts a Williams-penned article about the allegedly slow pace of ...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/04/l-a-times-misleading-readers-regarding-confirmation-of-obamas-judicial-nominees/

Shocking, that is, because it seems mostly fair. Breitbart, who has emerged as a star of the “tea party” movement, loves telling his apostate’s tale in the italicized, frequently profane ma...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/04/l-a-times-profile-on-breitbart-shocking/

A front-page story in the L.A. Times this morning is titled She killed her husband — or did she? Police got a confession from Kristi Lyn Bateson nine years after her husband was found shot to d...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/31/l-a-times-misrepresents-holding-of-federal-decision-in-california-murder-case/

The L.A. Times today publishes an article by Borzou Daragahi about how Muslims across the world disapprove of opposition to the Ground Zero mosque: The heated debate across America over construc...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/23/l-a-times-delivers-pro-muslim-spin-on-ground-zero-mosque/

A little touch of bias for you in the L.A. Times article on the gay marriage stay: The 9th Circuit panel, which legal analysts said included a conservative, a moderate and a liberal, also indicat...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/17/l-a-times-refuses-to-tell-readers-that-gay-marriage-stay-was-approved-by-panel-including-two-clinton-appointed-judges/

I have an upcoming essay about the way in which the value of our votes has been diminished over time. One of the reasons our votes are worth less nowadays is the negation of our votes by liberal ...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/13/the-negation-of-your-vote-by-your-betters/

The idea behind most magic tricks is to distract the audience — with patter, superfluous hand motions, and other tricks — so that they won’t notice the magician making his key move, such as...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/08/michael-hiltziks-sleight-of-hand-on-the-social-security-trust-fund/

Everyone remember Robin Abcarian? She is the L.A. Times writer whose quotes from James O’Keefe were misrepresented by anti-Breitbart L.A. Times columnist James Rainey. When I queried her about ...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/04/participant-in-past-smear-of-james-okeefe-to-do-profile-of-breitbart/

How unpopular is ObamaCare’s mandate to buy health insurance? This unpopular: With roughly a third of all precincts reporting, the anti-mandate vote is at … 75.8 percent. Good lord. That’s ...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/03/missouri-anti-mandate-vote-overwhelming/

I’ve got a better idea: let’s don’t. In most of the country, the conversation isn’t about whether Obama is favoring blacks or whites or anyone else; it’s about whether his stimulus plan...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/01/l-a-times-writer-lets-have-another-national-conversation-on-race/

The front page of the L.A. Times opinion section boasts a piece by David Klinghoffer, an intelligent design proponent who would normally earn only sniggers from L.A. Times editors. But he must ha...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/01/l-a-times-published-another-deceptive-anti-breitbart-piece/

The L.A. Times‘s James Rainey predictably seizes on the Sherrod story today, in a futile attempt to rehabilitate his reputation after his mishandling of the ACORN story last year. If I told you...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/24/james-rainey-breitbart-was-irresponsible-for-doing-what-i-do-all-the-time/

The L.A. Times yesterday ran a front-page article purporting to be an analysis of whether it is an effective strategy to paint Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina as rich women out of touch...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/18/l-a-times-how-about-a-front-page-article-on-some-democrat-talking-points-about-how-rich-meg-whitman-and-carly-fiorina-are/

Maura Dolan of the L.A. Times has an article that explains how familial DNA searching caught “The Grim Sleeper,” a serial killer who was charged Thursday with 10 counts of murder. Familial se...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/10/l-a-times-gee-maybe-familial-dna-searching-isnt-so-bad-after-all/

I don’t even live in California but I’d subscribe to the L.A. Times if it had a few more reporters like Andrew Malcolm. I’d especially subscribe if they were all as clever, and occasionall...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/22/the-best-thing-about-the-la-times/

Matt Welch vivisects Eric Boehlert in this excellent post at Reason. The subject: Boehlert’s whiny post about how Andrew Malcolm at the L.A. Times doesn’t show proper respect to the office of...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/14/eric-boehlert-still-wearing-the-kick-me-sign/

Yes, that is really the title of his post. You’d think one glance at one of my year-end reviews of the L.A. Times would somewhat dispel that notion. And it would . . . for honest people. But su...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/10/eric-boehlert-why-does-the-los-angeles-times-hate-obama/

Yesterday, our host noted the conspicuous absence in the Los Angeles Times of any mention of the Helen Thomas affair. Today, the paper reports on Thomas’s long overdue retirement: Helen Thomas...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/07/willful-blindness-to-bigotry-in-the-l-a-times/

. . . if it existed. That’s right: the number of stories about Helen Thomas’s May 27 call for the Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine” in the L.A. Times print edition is . . . zero. (T...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/06/i-would-criticize-the-helen-thomas-coverage-in-the-l-a-times/

Mickey Kaus asks whether the L.A. Times spiked an opinion piece by Jonah Goldberg favorable to Mickey: And he’s sheveled? Jonah Goldberg wrote a very generous article (except for the “balding...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/19/did-the-l-a-times-spike-a-pro-kaus-piece/

Just over a month ago, I noted the way that the L.A. Times covered the effects of water rationing in Los Angeles, with a story praising rationing titled L.A.’s February water use drops to 31-ye...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/19/l-a-times-editors-looks-like-water-rationing-isnt-so-great-after-all/

The L.A. Times has appended a “For the Record” notation on that Pat Tillman column I noted here this week: For the record: An earlier version of this column said Pat Tillman had been “murde...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/30/l-a-times-finally-issues-transparent-correction-of-columnists-claim-that-pat-tillman-was-murdered/

The U.S. Government’s handling of Pat Tillman’s death was a disgrace. Tillman was killed by friendly fire, and the U.S. tried to cover it up. You can read all about it in an excellent book by...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/27/l-a-times-does-stealth-correction-of-allegation-that-pat-tillman-was-murdered-by-guys-on-his-own-team/

Today at the L.A. Times, Tim Rutten has a column that well embodies the typical media misunderstandings of the Tea Party movement. Rutten says: “The group is conventionally portrayed as a burge...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/18/tim-rutten-tea-partiers-are-just-angry-white-males/

Yesterday our host posted his own thoughts on the Los Angeles Times‘s shameful editorial reflecting on former LAPD Chief Daryl Gate’s life and death. I submitted my reaction to Pajamas Media...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/18/more-on-the-l-a-times-vs-daryl-gates/

Several of you have written asking for comment on the death of Daryl Gates, and the L.A. Times‘s ridiculous editorial which blames Gates for the 1992 riots and a lot of other things. I asked Ja...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/17/l-a-times-editors-spit-on-gatess-memory-and-botch-the-facts-in-the-process/