Word: chandler
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What prompted Chandler's outburst was a special issue of the paper's Sunday magazine on Oct. 10, dedicated to the new Staples Center sports arena in downtown L.A., home to the Lakers, Clippers and Kings. Such special issues are common these days, as newspapers and magazines look for ways to attract advertisers, and it was a financial windfall for the Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. But as one of the arena's 10 "founding partners," the paper had agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters...
Word swept quickly around the newsroom of the Los Angeles Times by interoffice e-mail. Otis Chandler, the former publisher who shepherded the paper to nine Pulitzer Prizes, was back--in spirit if not in fact. Chandler, who retired as publisher in 1980, sent his message directly to reporters, to the dismay of the newspaper's management. Read aloud as more than 100 staff members gathered in the newsroom, his words were stunningly direct. His successors, he said, had been "unbelievably stupid" and caused "the most serious single threat to the future" of the paper his family had bought...
...troubles are not over. Downing further rankled Times journalists, already reeling from editorial cutbacks, when she called the newsroom a "velvet coffin," implying that more deadwood needed to be eliminated. When several editors were later chastised for letting Chandler's note be read to the open newsroom, some Times journalists talked of staging a one-day byline strike. "Downing is public enemy No. 1," said a reporter. "There's a bloodlust in the newsroom." Which probably means there will be more juicy headlines about the unsettled Times...
...VEDRA D. CHANDLER...
...Perry's case, that particular ability is sarcasm; he excels at dishing out ridicule, firing one cutting remark after another, all the while wrapping his acerbic barbs in self-deprecation. Perry's got great timing and a needling delivery, and these qualities have helped make his Chandler Bing the most consistently funny and engaging character on "Friends" for the last five years. And Perry is an ideal sitcom actor--his playful banter and caustic wisecracks are perfectly suited to a medium that thrives on one-liners. But Perry is still trying to find his niche as a movie star. Almost...