The Enterprise Report http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/p-prize.htm http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:58:48 -0800 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:57:58 -0800 FeedForAll Mac v2.1 (2.1.0.1); http://www.FeedForAll.com/ Kevin Roderick, well known blogger, news aggregator and still sometime journalist, who publishes the Los Angeles based blog LAObserved has been named the recipient of a distinguished journalist prize by the Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles Chapter http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/p-prize.htm 2D0603AC-15B9-406E-ADA9-7697ACB84B08-41984-0002315796DFA817-FFA Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:58:38 -0800 Sweeps weeks stunts at local TV news stations around the country are nothing new. At KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles, as elsewhere, they’ve been going on for a long time. As ratings and profit margins have become king in recent years and staffs and budgets slashed as audiences have fled local TV news in droves, the decent to the bottom seems to have been getting faster and faster recently. http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/landing_strip.htm 5A6EADAB-523A-46E1-B5B3-307F7EE4737B-2948-0000748BF9F2F377-FFA Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:33:32 -0800 By all accounts Mellissa Fung is a courageous woman.  She was stabbed, kidnapped and held hostage outside Kabul, Afghanistan since October 12, 2008.   She spent nearly four weeks being hidden by her captors in a tiny dirt hole, routinely blindfolded and chained.  Her story and ordeal were described in a lengthy interview broadcast on the Canadian TV just days ago http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/fung.htm 346D990A-C8B0-4045-A744-32A5F920B009-13447-0001015FFF0DF202-FFA Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:05:27 -0800 Elmer Dills was a very interesting man.  He went from a career in the CIA to a decade’s long career as a TV, radio and internet restaurant and travel critic here in Los Angeles.  His restaurant and travel reviews were part of growing up in Southern California for decades in Los Angeles.  If Elmer said it was good, you knew it was. http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/E_Dills.htm D2563005-8E3C-4D49-931B-DF8004E5A5EE-1115-000029B63BD733FD-FFA Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:35:56 -0700 Here at ERSNews, we’ve always “digging for stories” too and we found the Alaskan court record related to Sarah Palin and her family rather amusing and A-typical. We also found that so far nobody else in the media has bothered to report about it. What struck us was the “normality” of the legal run-ins with the law that Palin, her husband and the rest of her family have had in Alaska.  Whatever happened elsewhere and before Palin settled down in Alaska we don’t know about, because we’re still looking into that! But if the family’s legal history in Alaska is any indication, they seem like the typical American family to us! http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/Pal_Fam.htm 12A33A19-2C0E-48AD-9520-F3BA3A61FCE4-31364-0002B5F3A155598F-FFA Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:05:28 -0700 If you believed the hype, he was shaping up to be their worst nightmare, but in the end he turned out to be their secret weapon.  Bill Clinton made a thunderous return to the national spotlight at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Wednesday night and gave an unequivocal endorsement of Barack Obama as president fit to lead the United States in the 21st Century. “Barack Obama will lead us away from division and fear of the last eight years and lead us back to unity and hope,” Clinton said in the climax of a spirited address that electrified the 20,000 delegates crammed inside Denver’s Pepsi Center. http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/dnc_clinton.htm D569593C-6B3E-489A-9DC3-8D3A37409191-3554-0000226B0049324E-FFA Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:01:59 -0700 This is a story that by most accounts anyone would call a real mess.  Andres Martinez is a journalist. He is a well-respected one it seems from his work history and credentials.  Currently he is a columnist for the Washington Post and a fellow at the “New American Foundation“ in Washington D.C. His column “Stumped” runs twice weekly in the Washington Post.  It covers the world of politics.  Martinez was an opinion editor for the Los Angeles Times prior to that.  His relationship with Kelly Mullens came to an end recently.  Mullens is a Los Angeles based entertainment publicist. http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/M-Media_breakup.htm 5218AE94-2E7B-4108-BE11-50F513125B2A-665-00000A00B508B198-FFA Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:23:19 -0700 In April 2008, Los Angeles blogger and Internet muckraker Luke Ford posted an item claiming that one of Los Angeles’s major bloggers, Kevin Roderick who founded and writes LAObserved.com, may have on fudged his claim of sharing two Pulitzer Prizes. http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/p-prize.htm DE6FA6BF-8DCB-4A5F-885B-7B3C4BF6668B-4090-00001E9785EEC48B-FFA Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:27:17 -0700 The FBI and the Dept. of Justice say they know who mailed anthrax laden letters to members of the media and two members of Congress in September and October of 2001. They say the Anthrax killer is Bruce E. Ivins, a highly regarded scientist who worked at the US Army’s biological research lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Ivins committed suicide last week. http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/anthrax.htm ECE1DDE2-1C98-4B0B-B79A-269DEFF7A714-4584-0000251B024DD81D-FFA Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:30:32 -0700 THE LAST PERSON I EXPECTED TO STOP BY MY OPEN HOUSE. This is one of those stories that you would never believe and you probably won’t, but I have witnesses! This story is not based on sources or “based on a true story” like we hear so often on TV and in the movies, this story is 100% true. http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/Mirthala_OpenHouse.htm 9119F9B3-6CE4-46D9-A0B6-D27AF79DC932-4584-00002494B9C8BF3E-FFA Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:43:47 -0700 ERSNews has obtained new information about the NTSB investigation into the accidental in-flight deployment of an emergency escape slide that caused Presidential candidate Barak Obama’s Midwest Airlines charter flight from Chicago to North Carolina to be diverted to St. Louis on Monday (7/7/08) http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/Obama_Plane.htm 8D43F4C9-5C61-44B0-B5C8-63842FC51713-4584-0000252C335049D6-FFA Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:30:32 -0700 HOLLYWOOD LAWYER THREATENS TO SUE ANYBODY WHO PUBLISHES THE LETTER THAT THREATENS THEM! http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/SueYouSueMe.htm 0D6AD3AE-9A3A-4FFE-8F1C-8120B1432AA9-4584-000024D81A521FA8-FFA Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:00:33 -0700 CBS News today retracted a previously reported claim that Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan, a rising star at the network, had conducted an exclusive interview with Afghan Warlord and wanted terrorist Gulbeddin Hekmatyar. http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/LL.htm EFB4B22F-FE0B-4BB4-A2FD-8674D5E9AAE7-4584-000024EBE02106B7-FFA Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:46:17 -0700 In Los Angeles federal court yesterday, Abraham Lesnik, a former Boeing defense scientist was charged with improperly retaining sensitive security information by Federal prosecutors. http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/Spy_4_FBI.htm A1F47AD3-97BB-4163-A057-0F691491A227-4584-000024FA27662C20-FFA Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:00:13 -0700 On May 11, 2007, FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Darrin Wargacki lost his job with the FAA at the Flight Standards District office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  Why Inspector Wargacki lost his job is now the subject of no less than three ongoing US government investigations. http://ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/FAA.htm 9B342B46-4F30-412F-B3D9-9FA0A80E8D1D-4584-0000250A0CDCEDF7-FFA Sun, 11 May 2008 09:00:03 -0700