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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck’s 2011 critique of LA media gang-coverage — the shallow-coverage thesis
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2011 In early October 2011, at a panel discussion featuring criminologist David M. Kennedy and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, Beck delivered a sharp critique of LA media’s coverage of gang violence. His thesis was direct: “The coverage here in Los…
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March 2011: Visual Art Source publisher’s HuffPost strike — the unpaid-blogger ethics fight that found its voice
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2011 In early March 2011, Bill Lasarow — publisher and co-editor of the LA-based Visual Art Source website — declared a strike against the Huffington Post over the platform’s continuing reliance on unpaid bloggers and syndicated content. The original FishbowlLA…
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FishbowlLA’s own editor sits for an Editor & Publisher Q&A
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 the FishbowlLA editor turned the lens around, noting that she herself had been the subject of an Editor & Publisher interview — a small, knowing bit of media-covering-media. Then The post pointed readers to a Q&A by…
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Roger Friedman points the thievery finger at Deadline
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 Aggregation without credit was a running sore in early-2010s online journalism. In January 2011 FishbowlLA caught columnist Roger Friedman naming names. Then Roger Friedman, the New York-based showbiz columnist behind Showbiz 411, had never been shy about calling out outlets…
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The LA Times editorial board on Manning at Quantico — and how the story ended
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In January 2011, the Los Angeles Times editorial board ran a piece calling attention to the detention conditions of the WikiLeaks source held at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. FishbowlLA’s pickup praised the editorial as belated but consequential. Then…
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David Macaray’s 2010 ‘replacement worker’ essay — and the strike-coverage vocabulary fight
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA playwright and former union representative David Macaray published a Dissident Voice essay arguing that the term “replacement worker” — the media-neutral phrasing for someone hired to do a striking employee’s job — was a deliberate vocabulary-shift…
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December 2010: the Burbank Leader’s Dan Evans and the city’s $1 million in undisclosed bonuses
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, FishbowlLA covered a local-government transparency fight in Burbank. The city had disclosed that — amid budget shortfalls — Burbank city employees had received roughly $1 million in bonuses the prior year. But the city would…
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The October 2010 LA Times op-ed asking if WikiLeaks could have stopped 9/11
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In mid-October 2010, FishbowlLA picked up an LA Times op-ed by former FBI special agent Coleen Rowley and former Federal Air Marshal Bogdan Dzakovic. The piece speculated on whether the September 11 attacks could have been averted if an…
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An LA Times reporter faces a Berkeley audience over the teacher-ratings series
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In autumn 2010 the Los Angeles Times became the story rather than the teller of it. FishbowlLA covered a UC Berkeley panel where one of the paper’s reporters defended a project that had become the center of a national argument…
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The LA Press Club’s 2009 National Entertainment Journalism Awards call for entries
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, January 2009 In late January 2009, FishbowlLA flagged the approaching deadline for the LA Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism Awards — with a wry note that FBLA had found the call for entries on Craigslist rather than receiving it directly. Then…