LA Press Club Waxes Nostalgic on the Herald Examiner
This may be somewhat esoteric for anyone who grew up on Land of the Lost, loves the Smurfs and/or listens to Depeche Mode, but there was a time when the Herald Examiner was the place to be here in Los Angeles. Last Thursday, the Los Angeles Press Club hosted “A Return to Corky’s: The Ultimate Herald Examiner Almost-20th Reunion Party.”
It was a packed house, to say the least, and there were many stories to be shared. By far, my favorite was the one told by Don Frederick (videos 2 and 3) on his hanging up on a somewhat inebriated Bill Hearst.
(Full Disclosure - I am the Publicist for the Press Club, did outreach for the event and shot the video.)
It was a packed house, to say the least, and there were many stories to be shared. By far, my favorite was the one told by Don Frederick (videos 2 and 3) on his hanging up on a somewhat inebriated Bill Hearst.
(Full Disclosure - I am the Publicist for the Press Club, did outreach for the event and shot the video.)
Labels: Alex Ben Block, Bobby Shriver, Corky's, Don Frederick, Herald Examiner, Jim Bellows, kevin roderick, LA Press Club, Linda Breakstone, Peter Reinhart, Ron Kaye
Posted by Edward Headington @ 3/19/2008 12:20:00 PM
6 Comments:
What's the crack about Depeche Mode supposed to mean, exactly? Even generally, vaguely? They're a cool band that's totally relevant and had a great world tour last year after more than 25 years in the business.
Unlike the HerEx, they're very much alive, kicking and making money.
No worries. It wasn't a crack. DM is my favorite band. Check out Dave Gahan's new solo album, Hourglass, if you haven't already.
Normally no one would give a rat's ass about journalists talking to/about other journalists.
The Herald Examiner was different, though. It was a GREAT paper: punchy, opinioniated, different,and fun.
Greatest sports section EVER, with Alan Malamud, Doug Krikorian, Bob Hunter, and loads of other great columnists.
Any paper that Jim Healy liked, YOU KNOW was a great paper.
Too bad the evil empire on Spring Street won the war.
Roderick reports that Zell is trying something new in Fort Lauderdale, moving "his" local TV company into the offices of the Sun-Sentinel, to force synchronicity and save money.
He's making noises about doing the same with KTLA and the Times.
The old way of doing this was so tradition-bound, "sleepy" and stuffy.
Yeah, not a lot of talk from the Chandlers about how much they like p-ssy and strip clubs as all- American.
The guys in your photo here won't win beauty contests, they're "faces for the print media or the radio," but that's fine, writers are writers not media stars. Sounds like Zell is working towards making media stars out of some Times writers -- well, tv talking heads already pretend to be reporters. Bloggers claim to be reporters -- quality and consistency has been replaced by the irreverent and occasionally clever, often dumb.
Herald's Sports Page will always be the beast!! Does anyone remember the old tabloid pull out??
Nothing could suck the life out of a room except retired jounalists talking of the good old days awith fond memories of paragraph structure.
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