Manuscripts

Election coverage

Description: 3 items: two memos related to LAT coverage of the 1988 national elections ; one letter from Norman C. Miller of LAT (Legal?) to John Miller, Director of Flight Operations, American Trans Air, related to injuries suffered by newspeople boarding a charter flight - one of those injured was LAT staffer John Balzar.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. 3 examples of 60-sec. LAT "Radio Continuity" (ads); Transcripts on various subjects, including: failed talks between USA and Mexico on sale of natural gas to USA; Michael Jackson (KABC-radio) interview with LAT staffer David Shaw, in part on Shaw's articles on LAT errors in coverage; about a dozen transcripts reporting LAT's refusal to run comic strip "Doonesbury"; Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of David Halberstam, author of The Powers that Be, a book which generally praised (Otis C.-era) LAT;KABC-tv reporters comment on Howard Rosenberg's LAT article criticizing the station's coverage of the Guyana People's Temple tragedy (2 copies).

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

Approx. 11 items. Subjects include: LAT opening a San Diego bureau; LAT's new fashion section, "Fashion '78"; KNBC-tv reporter Kelly Lange, LAT staffer Barry Siegel, and Dr. Neil Sandberg discuss the policies of private clubs in L.A. area, "who gets in and who doesn't and why," and the relatively positive record of Riviera Country Club; KNXT-tv's Connie Chung and Bill Stout comment on "The David Begelman Financial Affair"; KNX-radio brief on death of LAT art critic Henry Seldis, of an apparent overdose of prescription drugs; etc.

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Siegel, Barry

Manuscripts

4 items related to projects of LAT staffer Barry Siegel.

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Employees - Carlova, John

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT clip, 9/19/1963, from Art Ryon's column, reading in part, "John Carlova (editorial page staffer)...has finally Clicked Big with one of his books, and is off to New York."

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Media coverage

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: letters, clippings and LAT reprints on media coverage in the period 1974 - 1975. Most (if not all) of this material relates to LAT staff writer David Shaw being assigned to write media criticism for the paper.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

4 items. Three transcripts dated in March 1961, are from KCOP-TV broadcasts by Cal Tinney and Tom Duggan. Tinney praised LAT series on the John Birch Society, Duggan was critical of the same series. One more KCOP-TV transcript of June 1961, has Duggan again criticizing LAT on the subject of the United Nations.

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Election coverage

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