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LA Times Finally Catches Up toMMQB
By encinoman
On June 15, we published an item on the Motion Picture Academy of America (MPAA) leaving its long-time digs in Encino and moving to the Sherman Oaks Galleria. On Saturday July 7, the LA Times finally caught up, &;reporting&; the move in a page two business section story.
I developed the MPAA story myself the old-fashioned journalistic way, moving around the city with my eyes open. Seeing “For Rent” signs in the courtyard of the MPAA offices, I contacted a spokesperson (who told me I was the first reporter to call), confirmed the move and published the item.
The Times taking 22 days to run big news on one of Hollywood&;s most important organizations is inexcusable.
I don&;t hate the mainstream media, or the Times. In fact, I recently won another award writing for the LA Times&; now-slashed magazine, West. But it&;s frustrated to see&;and try to work in&;what the Times&; own Tim Rutten calls &;the generalized collapse of confidence by newspapers engendered by print journalism&;s passage through an economically wrenching transformation.&;
This entry was posted on July 8, 2007 at 4:28 pm and is filed under 60-minutes, business-journalism, Journalism, Los-Angeles-Times, MPAA.
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