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October 18, 2006

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Heads on Platters at the LA Times

By Catherine Seipp, Special Correspondent to PJM, Media

I have no idea whether the Los Angeles Times should cut even more staff positions or not. On the one hand is the odd notion that a 20% profit margin is somehow not enough. On the other hand is Times features columnist Al Martinez’s tirade the other week when he discovered blogs… and his remaining readers discovered that Martinez himself is still mysteriously occupying one of those coveted staff positions.


Breakfast With Mehlman by Richard Miniter
Ken Mehlman

Money, microtargeting, and ‘wire-side chats’ are this election’s new weapons.


There's a Pierre Cardin fake, but a Ben Cardin fake?
Original (?) Pierre Cardin watch

According to Pajamas Medias’ Washington Editor Richard Miniter, Democratic senatorial candidate from Maryland Benjamin Cardin has been playing fast and loose with the “fine art” of political advertising. A supposedly verité Cardin commercial purporting to show “average Joes and Janes” across his state supporting the Cardin candidacy is actually populated by his own campaign workers playing roles. (Note to campaign workers: sign a Screen Actors Guild contract and you will get residuals.)

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