The Los Angeles Times came weather-wrapped Thursday morning. There wasn’t even enough paper, apparently, to run a proper obituary for Chuck Philips, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Times reporter who died last month. But what are we to make of this shrinking Los Angeles Times, which is not quite gone but seems on the brink of following a generation of old-school editors and reporters to the grave? For sheer volume of prose, no one could beat the late Chandler-era Los Angeles Times. But I like to keep track, just in case the Los Angeles Times wakes up again, does something interesting, runs proper obits for fascinating L.A. characters like the late, lamented, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chuck Philips.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 02, 2024 17:45 UTC