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Los Angeles Times Watch: Conservative Members of Chandler Family “HIT” by Los Angeles Times Editors
Los Angeles Times: The Family Feud Behind a Media Fight
The move to break up Times owner Tribune Co. has roots in discord in the Chandler clan.
In 1995, Jeffrey Chandler decided to break with tradition and expose a family schism. A member of the large, extended and very private family that owned the Los Angeles Times, he had come to believe that the newspaper had become far too liberal under the control of his cousin, Otis Chandler.
It was time for The Times to return to its conservative roots, Chandler and his sister, Corinne Werdel, told Forbes magazine. “We have the inmates running the asylum,” Werdel said. “They’re so far out in left field.”
The siblings were especially upset with the paper’s coverage of gay rights and AIDS. “This is a mainstream paper, and the homosexual population is 1% to 1.5%,” Jeffrey Chandler said. “When you start featuring these kinds of stories the way The Times does … my God, you’ve got a campaign going on here.”
Not much came of the complaints, or of a study the two reportedly commissioned around the same time. Never made public, the study, by a consulting firm, is said to have argued that the paper should adopt a more conservative stance, modeling itself after publications such as the National Review, the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal. Werdel and her brother had limited power then to influence the paper or its parent company, Times Mirror Co.
Today, Jeffrey Chandler, 64, is at the center of power within the Chandler family, which sold Times Mirror six years ago to Tribune Co. of Chicago. As one of three family representatives on the Tribune board, he is a key player in the Chandlers’ fight to force the sale or breakup of the giant media company and could ultimately help determine the future of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, KTLA-TV and other Tribune properties.
The piece goes onto to portray the Chandler family as greedy, uncooperative, Christian Right Wing, manipulative financiers who do not give a damn about the Los Angeles Times, journalism or anything slse but their own financial wealth.
First, the Los Angeles Times editors go after Tribune Chairman and CEO Dennis FitzSimons.
Next, they “HIT” the Chandler family and their Trusts – the long time owners of the Los Angeles Times that are in a business war over the financial transactions through which the Los Angeles Times was sold to the Tribune Company.
Even more interesting is that Michael Hiltzik, Lefty and disgraced former sock puppet blogger contributed to this piece. Hiltzik wouldn’t have an axe to grind now would he? Or be amenable to write whatever his editors desire due to his tenuous employment situation at the Times and the likelyhood that other newspapers or journalistic enterprises would ever hire him.
This is an interesting piece indeed from the editors of the Los Angeles Times.
If the Tribune Company does not clean house (FIRE the Los Angeles Times Senior Editors and Publisher) then Flap is sure the Chandler family will.
Dean Baquet (Editor) – say good night Gracie and don’t let the door hit you in the ASS as you leave.
Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll, left, announces his retirement to news staff. Managing Editor Dean P. Baquet, center, will succeed him on Aug. 15. Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, right, praised Carroll’s leadership, saying, “We are indebted to him for his extraordinary legacy of journalistic excellence and wish him every happiness in the future.â€
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Urges Patience
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul at the start of their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 25, 2006.
AP: Iran urges patience as it considers deal
Iran said Sunday it was seriously considering incentives to halt its nuclear program and asked the United States and other nations to be patient while Tehran weighs its response.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters that specialized committees in key state agencies were studying the nuclear incentives offered June 6 by the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany.
“The package contains legal, political and economic dimensions. All its dimensions have to be studied,” Asefi said. “We recommend to Europeans that accuracy should not be sacrificed for the sake of speed.”
Asefi said the package required careful study before Tehran delivered its formal response.
“The reason that there can’t be a speedy response is that we have to hold serious discussions on the contents,” he said. “We are taking it seriously.”
Iran is the “MASTER” OF stall and obfuscate. A reasonable nation-state would agree in principle pending negotiation of details. Of course, Iran would have to agree to the immediate cessation of uranium enrichment. This Iran will NOT do.
So, why wait?
Next stop is the United Nations Security Council…….
Stay tuned……
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Iran Nuclear Watch: President Bush Rejects August Iranian Response to Big 6 Proposal
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Accuses the United States of Pushing Europe Away from Compromise
Iran Nuclear Watch: President Ahmadinejad – Big 6 Proposal a “Step Forwardâ€
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Would “Use Nuclear Defense†If Threatened
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Sends Mixed Signals on Big 6 Proposal?
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei REJECTS Suspension of Uranium EnrichmentThe Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Iraq War Watch: America More of a Threat to World Peace than Iran or North Korea
Arizona Republic: Murtha says U.S. poses top threat to world peace
American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to an audience of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.
Murtha was the guest speaker at a town hall meeting organized by Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, D-Miami, at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus. Meek’s mother, former Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Miami, was also on the panel.
A former Marine and a prominent critic of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq, Murtha reiterated his views that the war cannot be won militarily and needs political solutions. He said the more than 100,000 troops in Iraq should be pulled out immediately, and deployed to peripheral countries like Kuwait.“We do not want permanent bases in Iraq,” Murtha told the audience. “We want as many Americans out of there as possible.
Actually, Murtha recommended deploying the troops to Okinawa around 4,000 miles away from Iraq.
This old MORON, an unindicted co-cospirator in the Abscam politcal scandel (1980) who ratted out his fellow Congressmen while saying, “I’m not interested. I’m sorry… at this point” needs to shut the hell up.
America is a greater threat than Iran or North Korea to World peace?
Sounds like another senior “Okinawa” moment for the Congressman.
Does anyone REALLY believe this BULL?
Time for Murtha to retire. His credibility = zero.
***Correction***
From John Fund at the Wall Street Journal:
On June 28 the South Florida Sun-Sentinel published this correction: “An article on Page 3B of Sunday’s Local section misinterpreted a comment from U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., at a town hall meeting in North Miami. In his speech, Murtha said U.S. credibility was suffering because of continued U.S. military presence in Iraq and the perception that the United States is an occupying force. Murtha was citing a recent poll, by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, that indicates a greater percentage of people in 10 of 14 foreign countries consider the U.S. presence in Iraq a greater danger to world peace than any threats posed by Iran or North Korea.”
And from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
Correction: An article in Sunday’s editions misinterpreted a comment from U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., at a town hall meeting in North Miami on Saturday. In his speech, Murtha said U.S. credibility was suffering because of continued U.S. military presence in Iraq ,and the perception that the U.S. is an occupying force. Murtha was citing a recent poll, by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, that indicates a greater percentage of people in 10 of 14 foreign countries consider the U.S. in Iraq a greater danger to world peace than any threats posed by Iran or North Korea.
But, Murtha, continues to be a MORON…..and all of the other statements about him are correct.
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North Korea Watch: Senators Hagel and Luger Call for Direct North Korea Talks – Rule Out Preemptive Strike
Former South Korean spy soldiers demonstrate with a mock missile on top of their van at a rally near former President Kim Dae-jung’s home, to oppose Kim’s plan to visit North Korea, in Seoul June 25, 2006.
AP: Sen. calls for direct talks with N. Korea
Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday the Bush administration should talk directly with North Korea as concerns grow over a possible test launch of a missile that could reach the U.S.
Senators also rejected the idea by a former defense secretary that the U.S. make a pre-emptive strike against a North Korean missile.
“We are not anywhere close to talking about attacking North Korea, and we should shut up and stop it,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb.
“We need to talk directly with North Korea. The sooner we do that, the sooner we’re going to get this resolved,” Hagel, the second-ranking Republican on the committee, told CNN’s “Late Edition.”
The committee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), also spoke out against attacking the missile while it was on the ground.
“It would be advisable to bring about a much greater intensification of diplomacy, and this may involve direct talks between the United States and North Korea,” said Lugar, R-Ind.
North Korea long has wanted direct meetings with the U.S. Washington, however, has refused, insisting it will only meet the North Koreans in the context of six-nation international talks aimed at ridding the communist country of its nuclear weapons program.
Flap thinks that Senators Hagel and Lugar should simply shut up and allow the State, Defense Departments and President Bush deal with the North Koreans. They are only Senators from small Midwestern states and have not been elected to conduct United States foreign policy – regardless of their Senate committee assignments.
Also, Senator Lugar, does this mean everytime a nation threatens the United States that you wish to diectly negotiate with them about said threat.? Pretty absurd position, Senator.
Meanwhile, earlier today Japan has threatened North Korea with economic sanctions and North Korea has responded.
NORTH Korea has scorned a Japanese threat to impose economic sanctions in response to human rights abuses or a threatened missile test by the Stalinist state.
“The independent national economy in the DPRK (North Korea) is not such a weak one to be affected or shaken by sanctions from other countries,” the North Korean government newspaper Minju Joson said.
North Korea has boycotted the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks since November 2005 in protest to United States financial sanctions relating to American charges of money-laundering and counterfeiting.
Now is not the time to return to direct negotiations as a result of a nuclear missile test launch/threat. It encourages bad behavior which must be extinguished.
Stay tuned……
A commercial satellite photo of North Korea’s Nodong missile launch site taken on by a Digital Globe satellite and annotated and released by analysts at GlobalSecurity.org on May 24, 2006. The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Monday against a missile launch that experts say could reach as far as Alaska and threatened harsh action if the test flight goes ahead.
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Michael Ramirez on Missile Defense
North Korea Watch: SM-3 Block IA Interceptor Missile SUCCESSFULLY Fired in Thursday’s Test
North Korea Watch: United States Says “NO†to Direct Talks
North Korea Watch: Direct Talks with the United States?
North Korea Watch: Korea Says it “Is NOT Bound†by Missile Test Ban
North Korea Watch: United States Activates Missile Defense Shield – Part 2
North Korea Watch: United States Activates Missile Defense Shield
North Korea Watch: North Korea Threatens to “Mercilessly Wipe Out†US Forces In Case of War
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North Korea Watch: North Koreans Can and Have Made a Few Nuclear Devices
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Repeats Threat to Use Oil As a Weapon
Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh arrives at the OPEC headquarters in September 2005. Iran has again brandished oil as a weapon in a dispute over its nuclear programme, with the Islamic republic continuing to resist international demands to freeze sensitive uranium enrichment work.Reuters: Iran repeats oil is potential weapon in atomic row
Iran on Sunday repeated threats that it was ready to use its massive oil exports as a weapon to defend itself if it felt in danger in an international dispute over its atomic program.
But Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said international sanctions on 2.5 million barrels per day of Iranian crude exports would be impractical and would send oil prices over $100 a barrel, up from around $70 now.
Iran has been hauled before the U.N. Security Council over suspicions it is seeking nuclear missiles, a charge it denies. It could face economic sanctions and the United States has consistently declined to rule out military action.
Vaziri-Hamaneh said earlier this month the world’s fourth biggest crude producer would prefer not to play the oil card and would only do so to defend its rights.
He struck a similar tone on Sunday, telling state television: “I think using the oil weapon would be advantageous to Iran in times of threats.”
“But using such a weapon in the normal situation in the country and oil markets would mean confronting the world and we do not have such a policy,” he added.
Iran is blustering again because they have not arrived at a diplomatic solution to Condoleezza Rice’s gambit with the Big 6 Proposal.
Anything short of a cessation of uranium enrichment will be a non-starter and a referral to the United Nations Security Council for trade/economic sanctions. Flap outlined a possible compromise solution with a prolonged cessation of enrichment so that Iran could “save face.” However, time is running out and further bluster and attempted manipulation of the Western media cycle is now becoming redundant and pathetic.
On the notion that Iran would use 80 per cent of their export receipts as a weapon is ridiculous. As previously stated by United States Energy Secretary Bodman, the United States would be in “good shape” even if Iran did close the spigots, owing to healthy stockpiles.
Stay tuned……
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Accuses the United States of Pushing Europe Away from Compromise
Iran Nuclear Watch: President Ahmadinejad – Big 6 Proposal a “Step Forwardâ€
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Sends Mixed Signals on Big 6 Proposal?
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei REJECTS Suspension of Uranium EnrichmentThe Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Townhall.com Wach: Hugh Hewitt and Salem Communications Team Up for Conservative Activism
Newsweek: The Right: The Next Big Thing?
Conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt marries the power of talk radio with the reach of the ‘netroots.’ Watch out, Kos.
On July 4, Salem Communications, one of the country’s largest radio-station owners, will relaunch an old Web war horse called Townhall.com as a hub for its stable of stars (including Bill Bennett, Michael Medved and Hewitt himself). The hope? That “Web 2.0” wherewithal can transform what was once an op-ed clearinghouse into a single nerve center serving the separate conservative communities of talk radio and the Internet. To Hewitt, a valuable White House ally, the math is simple: add 6 million Salem fans to Townhall’s 1.4 million unique monthly visitors and you’ve got an audience six or seven times the size of liberal site Daily Kos, the Web’s biggest political blog. “We will overwhelm them,” he says.
Hugh Hewitt and Edward G. Atsinger, III, a Ventura County, Camarillo, California resident, have assembled an awesome communications conglomerate/empire from the RIGHT.
Atsinger, a board member of Oaks Christian High School (Son of Flap’s alma mater) has been acquiring his media empire as President and CEO of Salem Communications for years. His political donations and activism are renown in GOP (conservative) and Christian circles.
Flap is looking forward to the July 4th conversion of Townhall.com. Knowing both Hewitt and Atsinger there are only good things to come.
Captain Ed has Conservative Convergence Coming
What does that mean for conservatives? Looking at the Salem line-up, it portends a strengthening of the center-right rather than conservative extremism. The hosts on Salem tend towards that direction, especially Hugh himself. Dennis Prager and Michael Medved also offer shows that rely on dialogue with opposing views and focus on finding common values to reach larger consensus on political issues. Bill Bennett has a more socially conservative slant, and Laura Ingraham tends towards hard-line conservatism, but the thrust should enable the center-right and put a positive face on the Right.
Kossaks here comes the RIGHT.
Stay tuned for the July 4 launch………
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Day By Day by Chris Muir Sunday June 25, 2006
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