Outside the Tent
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Outside the Tent is an occasional feature in which the Los Angeles Times invites an outside critic to lament as deplorable some aspect of a Southern California newspaper whose book fest is bigger than any on that other coast. * My alma mater, Pomona College in Claremont, used to call itself the “Harvard of the West” until the school recognized that becoming a great college meant finding its own unique voice, not imitating the creme de la creme of East Coast institutions.
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An experimental column in which the Los Angeles Times invites outside critics to rip a Southern California newspaper whose most popular features include a weekly column on celebrity real estate transactions.
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Were readers spared from several hundred words of pointless blather or deprived the opportunity to read a trenchant critique of The Times? Decide for yourself and vote.
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An experimental column in which the Los Angeles Times invites outside critics to slap around a newspaper whose editorial endorsed TWO candidates for mayor. * Bloggers uncover that someone working as a reporter in the West Wing is also advertising himself as a $200-an-hour gay escort — someone whose name, a year earlier, had appeared in the U.S. attorney’s subpoena of White House documents during the investigation of the Valerie Plame-CIA scandal.
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An experimental column in which the Los Angeles Times invites outside critics to excoriate a newspaper whose home edition often gets wet when it rains despite the clear -- not blue -- plastic bag it comes in.
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An experimental column in which the Los Angeles Times invites outside critics to rip a Southern California newspaper whose most popular features include a weekly column on celebrity real estate transactions.