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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
