Alas, so far I only have Halloween photos for five of the six Sweeties, but here they are.
Top row, Reid as Darth Vader, Alex as Captain of the Love Love Boat, Aidan as Iron Man.
Bottom row, Kiley as Laura Ingalls, Mack as Michael Phelps.
You may click each image for a larger version.
“It’s not their kind of newspaper. It’s too big, it’s too stuffy. If you will, it’s too complicated.”
That’s then Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler referring to the need to attract Latino and African-American readers. He made the remark in 1978. And Chandler was considered the modernizer of the Times.
From an excellent look at the Times’ coverage of the Latino communities, Shades of Brown by Daniel Hernandez at LA Weekly.
“‘If I’m not in it, it means that the other readers don’t know about me.’ This is a far more profound conclusion. It means the L.A. Times is a separating force,” Parks says. “What Frank got me to see was that the Times had been approaching the Latino communities as ‘Them,’ as the ‘Other.’ We had to approach the coverage as, it’s about ‘Us.’”
(Sometimes it seems to NewMexiKen it’s like no one has ever heard of the motto of the United States: E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. Hello!)
Thanks to Annette’s Notebook for the link. A fascinating article.
“In The Times’s poll, the percentage of respondents who said that they weren’t totally sure who they were going to vote for was almost identical to the percentage who said that they think the economy is doing well. Are they the same people?”
Gail Collins, who has many more good lines today.
God may have given us the 24 hour day, but it took humans to create something even better.
The 25 hour day. Enjoy the longest two-day weekend of the year.
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