The blog system that hosts this site … allows the author to sign up to see his/her statistics. How many hits, going to which items, referred from where. Stuff like that. Some bloggers are fascinated by (or even fixated upon) these numbers. I hardly notice. Actually, I don’t bother looking, but my wife loves to […]

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I don’t think of myself as a peculiar person. Not particularly out of the mainstream. Well, aside from this one thing I’ve done. Which I can’t really defend or justify. I have nearly every San Bernardino Sun sports section from August, 1976, through February, 2008. Nearly every one. All 11,520 of them, if I’ve added […]

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Lakers fans are keyed up about the NBA playoffs. Giddy. It’s understandable. For the first time since 2004 (the Shaq-Mailman-Glove-Kobe team) the Lakers have a real chance of surviving a round or two. But a championship? Don’t count on it. Even if this or that analyst has decided, since the Pau Gasol trade, that they […]

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Read today’s press release, below. One funny thing about this … when the release shifts to “about Roski” … and the first item mentioned is that he was named “one of the 10 most intriguing sports figures” by the L.A. Daily News … I was the one who wrote that, for L.A. News Group, last […]

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Have to give the guy credit for a vivid imagination.Ed Roski, the force behind the attempt to build an NFL-worthy stadium on a Carson landfill, a few years back (that point in time when the NFL blew off L.A. and awarded an expansion franchise to Houston), is still at it. He held a press conference […]

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Ron Kaye, the respected editor of the L.A. Daily News, recently put to pasture by MediaNews, has launched a blog. The url: ronkayela.com … It appears as if he will talk about newspapers, and as an insider with the L.A. News Group over the past few years, he could provide a lot of the background […]

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In the post below I note that the “Employment Development Department” (actually the unemployment office) wants people receiving benefits to check with “at least” three prospective employers per week. And this isn’t news to anyone in the greater Los Angeles print journalism market … but the nation’s No. 2 media market doesn’t have enough serious […]

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They handle most of this unemployment stuff over the internet now. The signing up, the form-filling, the fact-checking. Which is convenient, because as someone who never has been unemployed, I really didn’t want to make lots of trips to DMV-type settings and hang out with other jobless folk eager to get themselves on the dole. […]

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Short answer? Yes. Journalists have to be the biggest whiners in the American workforce. Certainly the most prominent. Because so many of us have access to mass media, even outside our former sinecures in print: Alternative weeklies, web sites, blogs … and since what a lot of us did for a living was write, we […]

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Jim Matthews is an important journalist, brothers and sisters. He occupies a niche, granted, but a niche most of us in journalism tend to overlook or trivialize. Distancing ourselves from a substantial subset of our potential readership. That niche: Hunting and fishing. Jim Matthews is the Boswell of the Great (SoCal) Outdoors. A guy who […]

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