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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 02:32 AM
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Inventing L.A. - The Chandlers and Their Times
Edited on Fri Oct-16-09 02:33 AM by onager
Just caught this on the local PBS station here in Los Angeles - a two-hour documentary about the Otis/Chandler dynasty who founded the Los Angeles Times newspaper syndicate...and eventually ran it right into the ground.

Definitely worth a look, and this is NOT a puff piece. During the segment on development of the L.A. Aqueduct, it even slips in a clip from Chinatown.

:rofl:

For DU'ers, the fascinating part will probably be the post-1960 political tension, as Otis Chandler and his mother Dorothy tried to drag the L.A. TIMES into the 20th century.

The more...silent members of the family were outraged by a series on the John Birch Society...since many of them were high-ranking Birchers.

They were even more outraged in 1962, when the front page of the TIMES featured an actual Black person.

Anyway, well worth your time! I DVR'd the show, but it is still running in real time.
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Sen. Walter Sobchak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 03:52 AM
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1. Not on my PBS... sigh,
For reasons I am unclear on the only PBS affiliate I can get here is Detroit!
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 04:35 AM
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2. I'm off the TV Grid, PERIOD!
But I was able to find that video on the web over here: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/inventing-la/watch_online.html

Thanks MUCHO to the OP for this find!

pnorman
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 05:59 AM
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3. I'm almost halfway theough that video. Thanks for the lead!
Mike Davis is mentioned several times there. He's a "home boy" to that area, and his book, "City Of Quartz" is well worth reading.

pnorman
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 09:18 AM
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4. City of Quartz is excellent
Had to second that.
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 09:36 AM
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5. Here's an article that goes into some of that book;
"The Story of Los Angeles and Its Potential Ramifications for the Rest of the World, St. Louis in Particular"
http://joefrank.tripod.com/lafuture.html

In Mike Davis's book, I was particularly taken by the history of that socialist utopian community. "New Llanos"

pnorman
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 10:08 AM
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6. I really look forward to seeing that. nt
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david13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-19-09 04:48 PM
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7. But, oddly enough, the L A Times, I don't know when, obtained
the reputation around Los Angeles, and in other places, as being ... totally left wing, liberal, Democrat biased, etc.
How that happened, I don't know.
Or maybe it was just that it didn't stay super ultra conservative right biased.
dc
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