Andrés Martinez: The Opinion L.A. Chat
February 7, 2007 | 8:43
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Take your best shot at Andrés Martinez, editorial page editor of Los Angeles Times. Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2 p.m. Pacific Time.
The Times' editorial board has recently:
favored amending Article II Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to become president;
opposed the Greater LAX Minimum Wage Law;
opposed sailor talk in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and
favored federal recognition of the Armenian genocide.
Now is your chance to weigh in on these matters and others, as editorial board chief Andrés Martinez joins the Opinion L.A. chat. Click here for details and registration. Even if you can't attend the chat, leave questions in the comments below, or email us.
This is from the "Terms of Service" from the above link "Click here for details and registration".
"If you operate a Web site and wish to link to Latimes.com, you may link only to the home page, www.latimes.com, and not to any other page or subdomain of Latimes.com."
Are you kidding me? Can you imagine blogging where people only linked to home pages? The LA Times seems to want to eviscerate the most powerful and useful feature of the World Wide Web.
Posted by: riposter | February 08, 2007 at 11:20 AM
This is not a comment on a specific editorial but on the "editor" that decided that the unfortunate woman astronaut deserved front page coverage with lead photo and I believe four reporters assigned to the story when there are so many more important stories: the war in Iraq, the coming war with Iran, the President's disgraceful and highly politicized budget, global warming, the massive failures of the LAUSD, the Chinese destruction of a satellite in space, the current account deficit, the Libby trial and evidence to date on the corruption and dishonesty of the Washington Press Corps and the Waxman hearings. Why not put four reporters on the criminal negligence with cash in Iran? Why not ask how much of that money went back to Republican election campaign funds?
Then, borrowing from Eric Alterman, you might want to mention that the Senate, our most important deliberative body, will not allow itself to consider the wisdom of escalating a ruinous war that virtually everyone in the world opposes, save the increasingly detached-from-reality-and-discredited-leaders who insist on continuing it.
Posted by: Jon Eddison | February 07, 2007 at 01:56 PM