Was An Ambush Set For Christopher Dorner in Torrance? Another element of the LA Times’ well-mannered coverage of the Christopher Dorner case that struck me was the incident in which police officers on the lookout for Dorner’s pickup truck shot up a vehicle driven by two newsies delivering the LA Times to homes in Torrance... Read More

Christopher Dorner and "the burner" The tactics employed against Christopher Dorner by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department are attracting an awkward amount of interest since an audiotape surfaced with law enforcement officials referring to a munition as a “burner”. As in (all quotes from the Feb. 15, 2013 LA Times report titled “As Dorner fired,... Read More

The Los Angeles Times delivers the news, and the post-modernist goods. First, Zero Dark Thirty We’re in the final weeks of Oscar voting, which means that the Los Angeles Times—home paper for most members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—is able to fatten its bottom line by running ads touting the various... Read More