It should have been a moment of celebration for whatever gods are still watching over Sacramento — and for the flawed mortals who inhabit the place.
When the State Assembly approved $5 billion in further budget cuts this week, it was one of those rare times that the Republicans and Democrats actually agreed on something. [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Negative Reinforcement
Brother, Can You Spare 75 Cents?
A few days ago I stared at the newspaper racks for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune outside Mama’s Royal Cafe in Oakland where I had just had breakfast.
I noticed that they were each charging 75c for their daily editions — and $2 for their Sunday editions.
That’s a far cry from the 25c [...]
Let them mow grass
Gov. Schwarzenegger, once a master of media sophistication (or manipulation, depending on your point of view), seems to be losing his touch.
His biggest talking point these days is that the current budget crisis in California presents all kinds of opportunities to do things better than they have been in the past.
What kinds of opportunities, you [...]
News Innovation Thrives in San Diego
When it comes to journalism innovation, San Diego may have every other city in the United States beat.
It’s here that new journalism experiments are popping up. For now, it has two of the liveliest online news engines — in effect competing against each other and the San Diego Union Tribune, recently sold and dramatically [...]
Milestones
Here’s a milestone that is not something to brag about – the Los Angeles Times Sunday circulation dropped below 1 million last Sunday for the first time since at least 1972, according to a blog posting by Times pressman Ed Padgett, as noted in LA Observed.
And here’s another: for the first time in memory, [...]
