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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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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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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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Bill Higgins leaves Variety for a fast-expanding Hollywood Reporter
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In the autumn of 2010, every few weeks seemed to bring another byline defecting from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter. Bill Higgins was one of the more telling departures. Then FishbowlLA, citing Anne Thompson’s indieWIRE blog, reported that Bill Higgins…
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When The Hollywood Reporter’s web traffic first overtook its digital rivals
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2010 For years the conventional wisdom held that the old entertainment trades had been left behind online. In August 2010, a set of traffic numbers complicated that story. Then In the summer of 2010, The Hollywood Reporter — long dismissed as…
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KCRW UpClose’s October 2010 Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball events at NPR West
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, KCRW and NPR announced the next two installments of UpClose — their live-event series staged before an intimate audience at NPR West in Culver City. The October 12 event paired The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell…
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KCRW DJ Chris Douridas’s December 2010 on-air recovery from a rainy-night Hotel Cafe crash
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, KCRW DJ Chris Douridas paused mid-set on his weekly New Ground show to tell listeners he had been in a car accident the night before — on the way home from Hotel Cafe’s tenth-anniversary party. The…
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Denis Dutton, founder of Arts & Letters Daily — December 2010 obit and the durable link-curation legacy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, philosophy professor Denis Dutton — founder of the link-curation site Arts & Letters Daily — died in New Zealand at 66. Dutton, who taught at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, was Los Angeles-born and…
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Bill Carter’s October 2010 ‘War for Late Night’ — and the long arc of the Conan-Jay conflict
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010 — only ten months after Conan O’Brien had been forced off NBC’s Tonight Show by the late-night-schedule rearrangement that returned Jay Leno to the post-11 p.m. slot — New York Times television writer Bill Carter’s…
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Cutie and Pop Pop — the LA Times’ 2010 profile of the Boyle Heights nonagenarian bloggers
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In mid-June 2010 the Los Angeles Times ran a feature on Barbara “Cutie” Cooper, 93, and her husband of 72 years, Harry “Pop Pop” Cooper, who were running a blog called The-OGs.com — short for Original Grandparents — out of their…