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Surveys - Newspapers vs. TV
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Newspaper Surveys
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Correspondence from George Gallup and L. D. Hotchkiss, including one annotated by Harry Chandler. Gallup Survey results for the 1948 election. Completed sample of the survey sent to candidates running in a spring Municipal Election. File of L. D. Hotchkiss and William Holden.
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Gallup Poll
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Two pieces of correspondence between George Gallup and Otis Chandler, which includes a copy of confidential report entitled "National Survey of Newspaper Readers, dated July 1976.
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California - Northern vs. Southern
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Approx. 15 items: various chronologies recording dates of newspaper articles from both L.A. and San Francisco related to the often rocky relationship between the two cities and between northern and southern California; clips and copies from newspapers in both cities; 4-pp. reprint featuring stories from San Francisco, dated 4/19/1906, and headed "The Call=Chronicle=Examiner," all under the banner headline "Earthquake and fire...San Francisco in ruins"; transcription of S.F. Call editorial of 11/21/1908, "San Francisco does not forget," responding to alleged slurs by Harrison Gray Otis in LAT; 3-pp. chronology, headed "SO. CAL. vs. NO. CAL., 1881 - [1911] ; memo with attached clips, on LAT coverage of the point in the early 1960s when California became the most populous state in the union.
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KABC TV Series on The Times Interview
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"Fourteen items relating to a KABC TV series on The Times which aired in October 1979. These items include one note, three memos, and six letters. One of the memos has attached research regarding the Owens Valley and San Fernando. "
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Newspaper Guild drive
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Flier/article from the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild about cutbacks and layoffs at the Times with handwritten notes refuting many of the claims; list of Guild represented newspapers; anti-union memo entitled "What the Guild Won't Tell You" originally stamped CONFIDENTIAL.
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Classified Presentation
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6 items: 24-pp. script headed "Classified presentation," dated 9/12/1983 ; Gail Hyland memo, 10/7/1983, with attached 24-pp. script and other materials ; 18-pp. script headed "Classified Presentation," dated 2/21/1984 ; another version of same script, dated 12/6/1984 ; 4-pp. item headed "The Los Angeles Times delivers an upscale audience" (poor quality copies), gives demographic information ; 3-pp. "Outline of Classified presentation."
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