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1. Comment by buford gooch on 3/26 @ 4:51 pm #

   It’s that much ballyhooed professional staff of reporters and editors that makes the MSM so much more reliable than blogs. The reporter won a Pulitzer a while back doncha know.

2. Comment by Moron Pundit on 3/26 @ 5:10 pm #

   I’m pretty sure mass-produced “Dad of the Year” awards hold more legitimacy than Pulitzers at this point.

3. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 3/26 @ 7:06 pm #

   - Maybe they should switch “clavicle journalism” over to a category in the Nobel prizes.

   - You know, something like “Story most likely to blow up”.

4. Comment by MC on 3/26 @ 7:28 pm #

   I didn’t know Rather had switched jobs…

5. Comment by Tom on 3/26 @ 8:46 pm #

   When you’re reduce to one writer at the LAT (who also puts the paper in plastic bags when it rains), things tend to slip by.

6. Comment by Squid on 3/26 @ 9:01 pm #

   When I first heard about the “professional” media’s much-vaunted “layers of oversight,” I thought they meant layers in the organizational sense, e.g. supervisors, managers, directors, editors, etc.

   It wasn’t until much later that I realized that the media’s “layers of oversight” actually refers to a bunch of ink-stained wretches whose job it is to say, “Oversight? Fuck it!”

   Layers, indeed.

7. Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 3/26 @ 9:12 pm #

   - “clavicle journalism”……that funny thing a reporters clavicle bones do when someone has the temerity to ask if the story has been sourced properly, and the reporter spreads his hands and says “Huh?”.

8. Comment by narciso on 3/26 @ 9:33 pm #

   Why would the L.A. Times reporting be any more informed than they were in the
   90s, when they bought Rick Ross’ story
   of how the crack epidemic occurred, ignoring the role of “Toots” Reese. Which they had to retract after Webb used that lie to foist the CIA ‘Dark
   Alliance’ conspiracy onto the Webb. I know it’s been 15 years, but they still
   got it wrong.

9. Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 5:24 am #

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10. Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/27 @ 7:53 am #

    When I first heard about the “professional” media’s much-vaunted “layers of oversight,” I thought they meant layers in the organizational sense, e.g. supervisors, managers, directors, editors, etc.

    No, they meant “oversight” as in “that was overlooked”.

11. Comment by Squid on 3/27 @ 8:14 am #

    My mistake. Mayhaps it’s the fact-checking that gets laid?

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