Bring me a real paper; American press; American press.(Books and Arts)(Review)(Brief Article)

Economist (US), The, June, 2001

Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty.

IN 1958, The Economist accurately described the Los Angeles Times as "a shoddy sheet of extreme right-wing viewpoint". It had a deserved reputation for being one of America's worst, if most profitable, newspapers. S.J. Perelman of the New Yorker liked to tell how once when his train stopped in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he had asked a porter to bring him a newspaper. "Unfortunately," Perelman recalled, "the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times." Barely 20 years later, the paper was one of the country's best, regularly ranked with the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Its transformation was largely the work of one man, Otis...

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