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L.A. Times Offers 0% Loan to Buy OC Register

After the Orange County Register filed an emergency bankruptcy at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, Tribune Publishing, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, surprised a federal court hearing with $3 million zero rate interest loan to keep the Register and Riverside’s Press-Enterprise operating in what appears to be a move to gain monopoly control of SoCal newspaper publishing.

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L.A. Times: Voters ‘Believed’ They Were for Religious Liberty

The Los Angeles Times, reporting that Houston voters rejected a city ordinance Tuesday that would have expanded transgender access to public restrooms, said that the fight had been between between gay rights advocates and those “who believed they were defending religious liberty” (emphasis added).

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Bloodbath: ‘Los Angeles Times’ To Cut 10% of Staff

While it may be impossible to believe that an upstanding newspaper like The Los Angeles Times, a trusted and beloved publication that describes half-black men as “white supremacists,” is having financial troubles, the fact is that a bloodbath involving at

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L.A. Times Columnist’s Criticism of Pension Analysis Flawed

In a recent Los Angeles Times “Economy Hub” post on public-sector pensions, Michael Hiltzik took a shot at the California Policy Center for analyzing the average pensions of full-career Calpers retirees–those who work at least 30 years–in its pension analyses.

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Jerry Brown ‘like Reagan and Trump,’ Could Win in 2016: Columnist

California Gov. Jerry Brown is a “geezer,” but he has the “opportunity of a lifetime” in the 2016 presidential race. That’s according to Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton, who says that Brown “never has been in better position to run”–though he argues that “Brown blew his best chance” because of his three previous failed runs (1976, 1980, and 1992).

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Mass Layoffs at SD-UT

San Diego Union-Tribune employees are suffering 178 layoffs this week resulting from May’s announced sale of the newspaper from Doug Manchester to multi-news outlet owner of the Los Angeles Times, Tribune Publishing.

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Los Angeles Times Attacks Jerry Brown for Supporting Fracking

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by environmental activist Middlebury College professor Bill McKibben in which he attacks California Governor Jerry Brown’s support for fracking, calling fracking during a drought an “obscenity” because of its use of water.

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20 Bills on Police Now at State Legislature

Now that the Obama administration has subtly encouraged critics of police to vent their fury, California legislators have initiated a flurry of at least 20 proposals–according to a count by the Los Angeles Times–to shackle the police and ensure that they are being zealously scrutinized.

Chief Beck, LAPD (Damain Dovarganes / Associated Press)

Former LA Times Editor New Communications Director for CA Dems

On Tuesday, Christopher Cadelago, political reporter in The Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Bureau, revealed another example of exactly how strong the links remain between the mainstream media and the Democratic Party, tweeting:

Michael Soller, a former editor on the op-ed pages at the L.A. Times, named communications director for @CA_Dem.

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) April 14, 2015

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L.A. Times Identifies Family of Slain Israeli Arab as “Palestinian”

The Los Angeles Times, ignoring facts that would conflict with its anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian messaging, identified Muhammad Musallam, the 19-year-old boy shot and killed by a child from the group Islamic State, as a “Palestinian,” instead of what he actually was–an Israeli Arab who lived in East Jerusalem.

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L.A. Times Says Congress Should Hear Out Netanyahu 

In a surprising editorial, the Los Angeles Times, usually in lockstep with Obama Administration policy, writes that whatever the circumstances were that preceded Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress Tuesday, members of Congress should not boycott the speech, but listen to what Netanyahu has to say.

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