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November 2012: Tribune Company set to receive critical FCC cross-ownership waivers
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In mid-November 2012, FishbowlLA picked up an LA Times report by DC reporter Jim Puzzanghera: the FCC was set to grant the Tribune Company a set of critical media-cross-ownership waivers — letting Tribune emerge from bankruptcy with its newspaper-and-television…
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January 2012: a California prison bars an inmate from reading The Atlantic
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In mid-January 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a story — originally surfaced by sister blog FishbowlDC — about a California prison barring an inmate from reading the December 2011 issue of The Atlantic. The inmate, a woman serving a long…
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April 2012: Deadline gets fooled by a WorstPreviews April Fools ‘Prometheus sequel’ item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, FishbowlLA documented a small trade-press embarrassment: a WorstPreviews.com April Fools item — a fake story claiming James Cameron wanted to direct a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus — had been picked up as real. The…
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July 2012: Eriq Gardner’s THR item, Dan Abrams’s Mediaite response, and a photo-copyright suit
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In early July 2012, FishbowlLA tracked a small back-and-forth between The Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite. THR’s legal-affairs writer Eriq Gardner had published an item about a photo-copyright lawsuit against the Mediaite-network site Styleite. Mediaite owner Dan Abrams fired back…
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Harrison Cheung’s Christian Bale biography — July 2012, the Manhattan Beach Barnes & Noble homecoming
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In mid-July 2012, FishbowlLA covered Harrison Cheung’s return to his Manhattan Beach stomping grounds for a Barnes & Noble appearance promoting his Christian Bale biography. Cheung had spent 1992 to 2002 working closely with Bale’s pre-Batman career. Then Harrison…
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Nikki Finke’s August 2012 Oscar-host TOLDJA — and the Fallon-or-not 2013 ceremony question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, FishbowlLA tracked a Nikki Finke “TOLDJA!” on the question of who would host the 2013 Academy Awards. An LA Times report had Jimmy Fallon in talks to host with Lorne Michaels producing. Then Nikki Finke had…
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August 2012: the LA Times promotes Joy Press to Books and Culture editor
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In early August 2012, FishbowlLA covered the LA Times’s promotion of Joy Press to Books and Culture editor, succeeding Jon Thurber. The original framing noted the LA-journalism-couple angle: Press and her husband Simon Reynolds were “still going strong” as…
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August 2012: the THR Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ sequel scoop and Marc Malkin’s dispute
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters and Borys Kit filed a story indicating Kristen Stewart had been dropped from Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman sequel plans. E! News’s Marc Malkin publicly disputed the THR item. Then…
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Mike Fleming’s Playboy Interview sideline — May 2012, two decades of long-form Q&As
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In late May 2012, FishbowlLA noted that Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming — despite the relentless pace of his Hollywood-scoop reporting — had continued one longstanding freelance tradition: the Playboy Interview. The original framing documented that Fleming had contributed roughly two…
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Miles Corwin’s second Ash Levine novel — May 2012, the crime reporter turned LAPD novelist
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In late May 2012, FishbowlLA tracked an Orange County Register write-up of Miles Corwin’s new novel Midnight Alley — the second in his Ash Levine detective series. Corwin, a former longtime LA Times crime reporter who had become a…