I'll give you one small example of how anti-newsworthy the L.A. Times is. You heard a few months ago about the arrest of an ex-Chicagoan in the murder of Ashton Kutcher's former girlfriend? I was visiting L.A. around the time so the ghoul in me wanted to check out where she lived. I looked for the original 2001 article in the Times (I have a way of back dooring the Times internal search engine, 
) figuring they'd have her specific address rather than the generic "Hollywood Hills apartment" contained in the fresh reports. Turns out the Times didn't report the murder! Now one would think the murder of a model, ex-girlfriend of a sit-com actor in an apartment north of Sunset would be a pretty notable homicide. Not to the L.A. Times. Similarly I was reading about a home for sale above the Strip-something like 7mil-and there was mention that a previous owner had been murdered there in the late 90's in a possible home invasion., no arrest ever made. The Times gave it one paragraph! Can you imagine a homeowner being murdered in one of the most expensive residences in the city and it receives virtually no print? Yet if a drive by slaying happens in Compton there's a follow-up on it the next day!
) figuring they'd have her specific address rather than the generic "Hollywood Hills apartment" contained in the fresh reports. Turns out the Times didn't report the murder! Now one would think the murder of a model, ex-girlfriend of a sit-com actor in an apartment north of Sunset would be a pretty notable homicide. Not to the L.A. Times. Similarly I was reading about a home for sale above the Strip-something like 7mil-and there was mention that a previous owner had been murdered there in the late 90's in a possible home invasion., no arrest ever made. The Times gave it one paragraph! Can you imagine a homeowner being murdered in one of the most expensive residences in the city and it receives virtually no print? Yet if a drive by slaying happens in Compton there's a follow-up on it the next day! 
