{"id":336,"date":"2003-11-20T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T08:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=336"},"modified":"2003-11-20T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T08:52:32","slug":"shaw-on-where-the-l-a-times-has-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/shaw-on-where-the-l-a-times-has-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaw on where the L.A. Times has improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalismjobs.com\/shaw.cfm\">Journalismjobs.com interviews Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw.  <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JournalismJobs.com: Has the Los Angeles Times become a better paper since the Tribune Company acquired it in 2000 and John Carroll took over?<br \/>\n<br \/><BR><br \/>\nDavid Shaw: I think the L.A. Times under John Carroll, Dean Baquet, features editors John Montorio and Rick Flaste and publisher John Puerner is certainly a better paper than it was under Mark Willes, Kathryn Downing and Michael Parks &#8212; no question about it.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nJournalismJobs.com: In what ways has it gotten better?<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nDavid Shaw: The features sections in particular are substantially better than it used to be. Our Hollywood coverage is generally written better. The food section is substantially better. We&#8217;ve done an excellent job covering the major stories, whether it was the recall election or the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reorganization of all California news into a California section and not pretending to be simply a Los Angeles paper. Getting rid of some of the marginal community newspapers that we were using less experienced reporters on and potentially undermining our brand was a good idea. The paper is more design-conscious and looks better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, all you news-is-all-that-matters snobs: David Shaw reads the food section. (<i>Brought to you by the guy who puts the Merc&#8217;s food section together every week. Not that I&#8217;m biased or anything.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalismjobs.com interviews Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw. JournalismJobs.com: Has the Los Angeles Times become a better paper since the Tribune Company acquired it in 2000 and John Carroll took over? David Shaw: I think the L.A. Times under&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/shaw-on-where-the-l-a-times-has-improved\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}