Manuscripts

Shaw, George Bernard

Description: 1 item. LAT editorial copy, 7/5/1921, headline is fuzzy, but the message is clear. The entire article is harsh criticism of G.B. Shaw, including the passage, "No other living writer is perhaps so afflicted with malignant egotism."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Editorial - Opinion Section

Manuscripts

2 items: reproduction of Opinion Page One for 1/31/1988, with headline "GLASNOST - Truth helps, truth hurts"; article, Editor & Publisher, 5/21/1994, "Expression by Advertisement," explaining a criticism State Sen. Tom Hayden had regarding LAT; various issues of Among Ourselves from 1949, 1974, etc., showcasing articles on the philosophy and operation of LAT Editorial Pages. Oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo remove to Reference File - Oversize box.

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Taft, William Howard

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT editorial copy, 10/11/1911, "Taft and Pinchot," mainly a criticism of Gofford Pinchot, a prominent conservationist of the time.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1991 - David Shaw

Manuscripts

1 item: 5-pp. printout from Lexis-Nexis of LAT article of 4/10/1991, "Times reporter Shaw wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism..."

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Departments - Legal - Federal Trade Commission Case

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: clip, 8/18/1977, LAT, "FTC accuses Times of ad discrimination"; Wall St. Journal clip (same date), rate structure at (LAT) attacked"; several teletype tear sheets, 9/25/1981, sample headline, "Times Mirror to seek dismissal of FTC complaint"; LAT clip, 9/26/1981, "FTC tentatively approves Times ad discount accord"; article copy, AdWeek, 10/5/1981"; LAT ad run in Editor & Publisher, 7/24/1982, "A special message to our friends--thank you!...On August 17, 1977, the (FTC) filed charges against the (LAT).....on July 7, 1982, the FTC unanimously voted to dismiss the charges..."; etc.

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Employees - Shaw, David

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: large selection of articles by and about David Shaw, a writer who, in the words of LAT co-worker Doug Shuit, "loves the spotlight and fights hard not to let it elude him," some of Shaw's internal LAT memos and correspondence with people at other newspapers, attorneys, and his own editors; in a 1975 response to a critical letter by a Mr. Parsons, Shaw offers that, as a media critic, "I will be criticized no matter what I do," and adds, "I have long since become inured to criticism"; 18-pp. text of Shaw's speech to the Los Angeles Times Management Conference (1/6/1988); etc.

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Viereck, George S

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT editorial copy, 4/22/1916, "The treason of Viereck," aimed at a man who, according to LAT, is a "foreign-paid, anti-American propagan(dist)."

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Shaw, George Bernard

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