Posts tagged as Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Rag Afraid of that Coarse Mexican Language
Oh, Mexico! It's "a land so rich in slang and wordplay (much of it salty but freely used) that a newcomer armed with book-learned Spanish might feel he had studied for the wrong test." HAHA RIGHT? UNLIKE FRANCE OR RUSSIA OR CHINA. (Whoops, sorry.) Anyway! Thus begins what is a phenomenally dim little piece in the Los Angeles Times this week. Salty! Freely used! Unlike in New York City or London, where in our fine English language we never speak in slang. (What would that trashy Charles Dickens make of this? Hell, what would Evelyn Waugh say?) Here's the deal: nearly all other Spanish-speaking people hate both Mexican common words and slang, and the sounds of Mexican Spanish itself. They think it's coarse and low-class talk, and they will tell you to your face straight-up that your Spanish sounds "gross" to their refined, classist ears. And English-speaking people don't much like it either, though they're largely deaf to the connotations—they just hear it as servant-talk, or as cartoon Mexican babbling. So, neato, here is this look at The Wacky World of How Them There Mexicans Talk, from America's saddest newspaper, which by the way, is based in a Spanish-speaking town, not that you could tell from this. But don't worry, white people! There's only 112 million Mexicans in Mexico, and 30 million in the U.S. I'm sure you'll get used to the coarse and degrading sounds of Mexico, vato.
Some Ways That the Egyptian Revolution Could Still Die
It definitely now seems certain that the Egypt protest movement will not be petering out! It also sounds like tomorrow will be a huge, huge day. Yet still there are a couple of ways in which the protest movement there can be destroyed or damaged—and "total state crackdown" is an unlikely one. The state most likely does not have those kind of resources, and the movement has reached a state where state-sponsored violence will be met with resistance. READ MORE
LA Times: "Should California Resume Executions? Talk Back, LA!"
"Should California resume executions? Talk Back, LA! What you do think? Share your views below." READ MORE
Loony Little LA-Based Media Outfit Harshes on Obama
Headline: "Obama insists he's devoted to reviving the economy" READ MORE
Local Newspaper Will Now Mail Printed TV Listings To Your House
For just $2.99 a month, the Los Angeles Times will now deliver to your home a weekly 44-page tabloid-format TV news section, the TV Times. What's in it? TV listings, mostly! "24-hour daily grid listings spanning morning, afternoon, primetime and late-night programming, four pages of alphabetized TV/cable/satellite movie listings, a full-page cover story, a TV-related crossword puzzle, episode highlights and synopses, and a dedicated sports programming page." This is it! Someone has finally figured out the business model of the future! Okay, I'm being sarcastic, and that's rude. I hope the ad space makes them money! With the LA Times entertainment site's web traffic down from over 21 million views a month last September to just over 11 million this May, they're gonna need it to create all the revenue they can.
Covering the (TV) cops.
The story of rookie cop's harrowing first day on the job makes the front page of the Los Angeles Times. You can also catch it tonight on NBC; check your local listings.
