Last night on The Simpsons there was a Harold Stassen joke.
This morning in the Oakland Tribune there's a story titled "Angelides eyes another gubernatorial bid".
Phil Angelides, the Democrat who lost to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in last month's election, announced Friday he plans to launch an investment firm, advocate for education causes and lay the groundwork for a possible gubernatorial run in 2010. [emphasis added]
This has been Life Imitates The Simpsons (Phil Angelides edition).
The Orange County Register's parent company, Blackstone Group, said Red money is good money May 22 as they accepted $3 billion from its newest partner, the Chinese government, according to reports from several news agencies. Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that owns 28 daily newspapers and 37 weeklies in 11 states under its subsidiary Freedom Communications. Talks have already begun about finding a less ironic name for the chain, leading some to suggest "Pander Express," according to r
"Breaking" news in its "Newspaper Deathwatch" category: Media Bistro reports Orange County Register employees are unsure whether to take the buyout currently being offered or risk having future buyout offers lowered:
Nervous staffers at the Orange County Register had been considered asking for voluntary layoffs this week, after news spread that future layoffs would include less generous severance packages. (Currently, staffers are offered to two weeks' pay per each year worked.)
But when sta
Outside Eyes, a Newport Beach-based crisis PR firm, is among the agencies that have been brought in to help Alex Rodriguez deal with the firestorm of controversy that has been generated by the New York Yankees slugger's admission to using performance-enhancing steroids.
The firm knows crisis PR. Founder and CEO Reed Dickens was an assistant press secretary in the George W. Bush White House. Dickens' partner and senior strategist, Ben Porritt, was the press secretary for embat
Perhaps this art photo by Nick Gaines is an example of the porn the newspaper company is trying to hide.Orange County Register business writer Mary Ann Milbourn boldly got out front of the story about her corporate overlords at Irvine-based Freedom Communications being accused of trying to keep documents away from their creditors. "Freedom Communications Inc. is throwing up roadblocks in its
bankruptcy case by designating more than 1 million documents as
confidential, including a Dodgers base
