March Media Hotsheet
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever." - Oscar Wilde
Some upcoming 4th Estate events for the month of March:
- March 8th – The California Chicano News Media Association hosts a primer for reporters entitled “Disparities in Latino Healthcare.” 9 a.m. For more information, go to http://www.ccnma.org/ or call (213) 437-4408.
March 11th – Zócalo presents “My Colombian War,” a conversation with award-winning Colombian-born journalist Silvana Paternostro.” 7:30 p.m. For more information, go to http://www.zocalola.org/.
March 13th – The Los Angeles Press Club and Alex Ben Block present “A Return to Corky’s: The Ultimate Herald Examiner Almost-20th Reunion Party.” 7:30 p.m. For more information, go to http://www.lapressclub.org/ or call (323) 669-8081.
March 15th – The Associated Press Television Radio Association is having its “61st Annual Convention” with free weekend workshops for journalists. For more information, go to http://www.aptra.org/.
March 22nd – The Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles presents “New World of Media Photojournalism Seminar and Awards Dinner” for still photographers and videographers. 9 a.m. For more information, go to http://www.ppagla.org/ or call (714) 573-0902.
March 27th – The Los Angeles Press Club presents “Transforming the LA Times: An Evening with Russ Stanton.” 7 p.m. For more information, go to http://www.lapressclub.org/ or call (323) 669-8081.
March 29th – The Society of Professional Journalists – Greater Los Angeles Chapter hosts a “Freedom of Information Workshop” for reporters. For more information, go to www.spj.org/losangeles.
Labels: 4th Estate, Associated Press Television Radio Association, California Chicano News Media Association, Herald Examiner, LA Press Club, SPJ-LA, Zócalo
Posted by Edward Headington @ 3/07/2008 06:00:00 AM
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A jolly good morning EH.
That is not George Orson Welles of 'Citizen Kane' fame who is pictured, but rather Mario Lanza. Mario Lanza - American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed great success in the late 1940s and 1950s, and whose voice was considered by some to rival that of pasta enthusiast Enrico Caruso. Mario, looking dapper in his Trilby hat and cashmere scarf stands on stacks of Los Angeles Times papers, declaring to the world with that arrogant look, "I am king of pasta!"
In the LA TImes obits this AM a reminder of earlier times in LA when the "Mexican Problem" was in the headlines of the local rags on a daily basis,(especially the anti Mexican "Hearst, LA Examiner later the "Herald Examiner").
Manuel Reyes sent to San Quentin Prison on trumped up charges at 17 years old.
Like the article says he was never in any trouble before the Sleepy Lagoon charges or after he was released from Prison 2 years later.
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""Manuel Reyes, 82; Conviction in Sleepy Lagoon murder case later overturned
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 7, 2008
Manuel Reyes, a defendant in the infamous 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder case in which 12 young Mexican American men were unjustly convicted of the murder of a Mexican national and served nearly two years in prison before their convictions were reversed, has died. He was 82.
Reyes, the former owner of a South Los Angeles taco stand, died of cancer Feb. 5 in the Los Angeles home of his eldest son, Manuel, said Mario Reyes, his youngest son.
A Los Angeles native who dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and began helping his uncle on his garbage-collecting route, Reyes was 17 when he was arrested in connection with the murder of Jose Diaz, a young farmworker who died Aug. 2, 1942, after being found brutally beaten and stabbed at a ranch in Montebello.
Reyes was among 24 young Mexican American men who were charged in the case, and the ensuing trial of 22 of them became one of the largest mass trials in American history.
"My dad just told me he was guilty by association because they were Hispanic," said Mario Reyes. "He said they just rounded up a bunch of Mexicans and let some go. He never went into details about anything that happened that night."
Some of the defendants, according to trial testimony, had been assaulted by a gang called the Downey Boys earlier in the night at a reservoir dubbed Sleepy Lagoon, after a popular song of the day.
When they and other young men from their 38th Street neighborhood later returned to the reservoir to retaliate, the Downey gang was gone. They then crashed a birthday party at the nearby ranch, where, according to testimony, some of the defendants demanded to know the whereabouts of the "men who had beaten them up."
After some of the 38th Street boys entered the house, a fight broke out.
After the intruders had departed, Diaz was found lying unconscious in the dirt outside the fence south of the house.
The trial, which raised constitutional issues and continues to be cited today when appeals are made on the basis of an unfair trial, has been called "one of the darkest chapters in Los Angeles court history."
While being held in Los Angeles County Jail, the 22 defendants were denied haircuts, and they were not allowed a change of clothes during the first month of the 13-weektrial.
When defense attorneys objected that the unkempt "boys looked like mobsters, like disreputable persons," Judge Charles W. Fricke ruled against the motion.
The judge also ignored defense attorneys' objections to the courtroom's seating arrangements: Rather than sitting next to their lawyers, the defendants sat in two rows of seats facing the jury, which prevented them from consulting with their attorneys during the proceedings.
Jurors also were allowed to go home at night and had access to the frequently sensationalistic media coverage of the trial, as well as stories on juvenile delinquency that focused on Mexican American gang members.
The all-white jury found three of the defendants guilty of first-degree murder; nine, including Reyes, were found guilty of second-degree murder. Five other defendants were convicted of assault, and five were acquitted.
Carey McWilliams, a noted advocate for social justice, headed the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee to publicize the injustice of the trial and to raise money to fund the appeal.
"It was a racist trial," Alice Greenfield McGrath, who was present at the trial and served as the committee's executive secretary, told The Times this week. "The judge was unfailingly supporting the prosecution and on many instances was even insulting the defense attorneys."
After 12 of the defendants were sent to San Quentin State Prison, McGrath kept them updated on committee activities and visited them about every six weeks. She remembered Reyes being "one of the quieter ones -- a few of them had pretty interesting personalities -- and he was a pleasant person. He was never in any kind of trouble before or after."
In October 1944, the 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed all the convictions, citing insufficient evidence to show that the defendants had conspired to commit the crimes and saying that there was "no evidence to show that any of the defendants murdered the deceased."
The court also said the trial judge was "guilty of prejudicial misconduct in making undignified and intemperate remarks" to the defendants' counsel and admonished the judge for providing inadequate seating arrangements that isolated the defendants."""
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Where's that beautiful trumpet solo by Harry James when we need it?
To: every Racist Mexican who thinks
his race trumps the Rule of Law
in the USA!
1. Calling U.S. Citizens who want
the Illegal Invasion from Mexico stopped,racist,xenophobe,nativist
and other ignorant slurs only
reveals the true racism and that
itself harms the Legal Hispanics
who did it the right way.
2.The whole world now knows that
Los Angeles since the 1986 amnesty has become the U.S.Capitol
and source of Illegal Aliens and
Gangs infecting the USA!
3. The empty taunt of "Racism"
has lost its effectiveness and
when used by Illegal Alien
advocates flies in the face
of the Law and the Facts on
the ground and EVERYONE
knows it!
4. The Invasion from Mexico and
its efforts to create an
Illegal Mexican Nation within
the borders of the USA WILL
be stopped! Make NO mistake
In today's Daily Breeze for, those who want to know the new KKK in Los Angeles. The Mexican gangs in many areas are killing blacks, these are the murderous racists Don Quixote should mention now and then.
I guess in Don Quackers mind it's ok to kill the "Mayates". Let's have Don Q tell us what is feelings are about blacks in America. I will find Don Q. comments about blacks from another blog, in case he forgot.
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It was a hate crime
By Gene Maddaus and Andrea Woodhouse, Staff Writers
Article Launched: 03/06/2008 10:51:22 PM PST
Lavareay Elzy, 6, is in critical condition. Two black community activists are calling on District Attorney Steve Cooley to consider hate crime charges against two Latino suspects accused of shooting a 6-year-old boy in the head in Harbor Gateway.
Eddie Jones, president of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Association, said Tuesday's attack belongs in the same category as the shooting death of 14-year-old Cheryl Green in December 2006. In that case, two Latino suspects were charged with a hate crime.
"The gang members went up, threw some signs, and started shooting," Jones said at a press conference Thursday outside County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. "If that's not a hate crime, what is? We need to get this stopped in our community."
The victim, Lavareay Eddie Jones, president of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Association, holds a 2007 photo of shooting victim Lavareay Elzy, 6, at a news conference outside County-Harbor UCLA Medical Center. "He is now fighting for life, and we're asking the public to fight with us," Jones said. (Scott Varley/Staff Photographer)Elzy, remains in critical condition at the hospital.
"He is now fighting for his life, and we're asking the public to fight with us," said Jones, flanked by the victim's family at the news conference. "We need your prayers, we need your unconditional love and we need your support."
A police spokeswoman confirmed Thursday that one suspect in the shooting is Ernesto Murillo, 25, an Eastside Torrance gang member. The other suspect was identified as Ismael Torres, 26, who is believed to be a newer recruit to the gang.
Both are being held without bail and are expected to be arraigned today on a charge of attempted murder.
The boy's family did not speak at the news conference. But Jones said Lavareay liked to ride a scooter, tell jokes and go to school. He displayed a recent photograph of the boy wearing jeans and a black T-shirt, and smiling with his front teeth missing. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton have urged the media not to jump to the conclusion that the attack was racially motivated.
At a news conference Wednesday, Bratton slammed a TV reporter who asked about the racial dimension of the crime.
"You're always banging that Civil rights leaders Earl Ofari Hutchinson, left, and Eddie Jones help a woman identified as the aunt of shooting victim Lavareay Elzy when she began feeling faint at Thursday's news conference. (Scott Varley/Staff Photographer)drum," Bratton said. "You need to get off it." Bratton said later that detectives simply do not know whether race was the motivating factor.
"If we can go after hate on this, I'd love to hang these bastards on a hate crime," he said.
Jones was joined at the hospital Thursday by Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. Hutchinson wouldn't say if he believed the shooting was racially motivated, but he implored officials to thoroughly explore the "possibility there might have been a racial animus here."
He also said Villaraigosa and Bratton were "jumping the gun" by discounting the racial angle.
"There is a real problem, and it's the height of denial of city officials to say everything is fine and these are isolated incidents," he said.
Joe Hicks, vice president of Community Advocates, said the activists who spoke Thursday were "the usual suspects" and that they were allowing their arguments to get ahead of the facts by urging the district attorney to file a hate charge.
"I'm not a fan of hate crime charges," Hicks said. "It would suit me fine if they've got this guy in custody and they punish him to the maximum the law will allow."
While Hicks acknowledged that in a few cases there has been "low intensity ethnic cleansing" directed at black residents, he argued that the bigger danger to innocents is from warring gangs. He said it is unhelpful for activists to cast recent shootings in the terms of a widespread ethnic conflagration.
"We don't want to escalate the rhetoric here. We're not at the edge of some race war," he said. "But we do have turf battles between black and brown gangs. And we've got innocent people dying needlessly as black and brown gangs war on each other."
Armando Contreras, 25, who grew up in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood, said he believed that the adults in the victim's GMC Yukon had exchanged gang signs with the suspects before the shooting - suggesting the crime was motivated by gang rivalry, not race.
LAPD Harbor Division Capt. Billy Hayes said Wednesday that the victim's family had not been identified as gang members. He has said the family is from South Los Angeles and was in Harbor Gateway to purchase a car. A vehicle auction company, Low Cost Auto, is about a block south of where the shooting took place.
Jones, speaking on the family's behalf, also strongly denied the implication.
"This family is not a gang family," he said. "They're human beings who were shot at. Please stop pointing the finger. Everybody wears their pants sagging down. Does that mean they're a gang member?"
"Columbian" should be "Colombian," unless you're talking about that school in New York City.
Thanks Joe. Point well taken. Good morning to the rest of you. DQ, maybe it's a good thing I didn't go with a quote from the famous King of Yellow Journalism then. '-)
Avenues of Death
How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans
http://www.laweekly.com/news/features/avenues-of-death/456/
By CHRISTINE PELISEK
Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 12:00 am
Luisa Prudhomme proudly shows off photo after photo of her son: As a newborn baby boy swathed in a white bonnet and blanket. As a 2-year-old bathing in the bathroom sink. As a 5-year-old dressed in Michael Jackson attire. And a teenager checking out his first car, a used red Escort. And wearing cap and gown, grinning ear to ear at his high school graduation. She abruptly stops on this June day. “Anthony graduated high school nine years ago today.”
Prudhomme, who is white, passes over the last photo of her African-American son as a 21-year-old man, sporting a mustache and goatee, hanging out with a friend and flashing the peace sign. “He was full of peace and love,” she said, sitting at Anthony’s favorite Highland Park restaurant. “He thought he had the best of both worlds being black and white. I feel like I let him out to the wolves, and the wolves ate him up.”
On a cool November night in 2000, just a five-minute walk from Tacos el Michoacano, members of the Avenues gang awakened Anthony in the basement room he rented for $200 a month on a quiet, tree-lined street overlooking the hills of Highland Park and executed him because of the color of his skin.
“The detective told me that if my son was Latino he would be alive today,” said the mother, who wears a silver chain with a photo of her son in a heart-shaped pendant. “I had no idea how dangerous it was for blacks to live in Highland Park. His father lives in South Central. I was more worried about that.”
Police blame three killings of African-American men on the Avenues gang in Highland Park, which has led to a federal hate-crimes indictment and once again landed the northeast L.A. gang in the national spotlight. A decade ago, it was the killing of 3-year-old Stephanie Kuhen by a clique of the Avenues that put the gang in the cross hairs of law enforcement. The little girl’s murder by gang members who fired on her family’s car as her stepfather, lost, tried to turn around on a dead-end street, intensified efforts by police to eradicate the 800-member gang from neighborhoods just north of downtown L.A., where the forces of gentrification are flooding the area with new families seeking a safe, urban life.
Today, the continuing carnage on the streets of Highland Park and neighboring Glassell Park, Cypress Park and parts of Eagle Rock are cruel testimony to the mixed results of that campaign. Federal indictments, a gang injunction and one of the more ambitious series of gang trials in Los Angeles history, which began in 2003 and has so far produced three convictions for seven killings, hit the Avenues hard, but violence has continued by the gang and its rivals. Police blame the Avenues alone for more than half of the 200-plus homicides in the northeast L.A. neighborhoods since the early 1990s.
What makes Highland Park’s gang wars particularly disturbing is the way victims are struck down in broad daylight on busy streets, sometimes involving people without gang ties. Since January, nine gang-related killings have hit the neighborhood, including 19-year-old Cynthia Portillo, a pregnant woman. Police give this account: Portillo was shot to death on a February afternoon as she walked down the street with an 18-year-old alleged member of the Drifters gang. Members of a gang called Highland Park had just terrified three people standing at a bus stop, asking them, “Where you from?” before letting fly a hail of bullets. Then they came upon Portillo and her friend and asked them about their gang affiliation before firing off a round, striking Portillo in the head. Driving away, they fired at a teenager on a bicycle who fired back bursting their right rear tire. Police caught up with the gangsters moments later as they were parked on a side street.
The crackdowns on the Avenues’ leaders, which have come in three waves over the past decade, have produced a fresh crop of gang members, and also made room for other gangs trying to set up shop in one of L.A.’s oldest neighborhoods.
“Avenues gang activity has decreased and other gangs have increased,” said LAPD Northeast gang supervisor Detective Robert Lopez. “Other gangs are taking advantage of enforcement efforts and uncertainty in the Avenues. They are still leery because the Avenues are still formidable.”
Nearly a dozen Avenues gang members have been killed over the last couple of years because of internal strife, and they are still battling to fill the leadership vacuum created when their leaders went to prison.
The Avenues take their name from the numbered corridors that slice through Figueroa Street, Highland Park’s bustling yet economically poor main drag, home to Mexican grocery stores, check-cashing businesses, nail salons, swap meets, car washes, fast-food joints and a smattering of Mexican restaurants, galleries and nightclubs with a citywide draw. Steps from the 5-mile-long boulevard lie unpredictable hot spots, where violence breaks out amid 1920s historic Craftsman homes and bungalows, newly built luxury apartments just a stone’s throw from ramshackle homes with overgrown lawns and congested pockets of Section 8 low-rent apartments.
Here are a few words from our closet racist, Don Quixoute
Don Q. the Racist Speaks
don quixote said...
I know there is blame to go around but along with the shooting death of 3 year old Kaitlyn Avila and these killings (including an innocent 10 year old boy while he was on the ground), what does this tell you about culero Mayates. And look at the ages of these chanates. I hope the Carnals get a shot at these changos when they hit the joint.
What a hypocrite that Don Q is, he call blacks "changos" spanish for monkeys.
Don Q, do you wear a white sheet?
Don. Q., you better start using your Santiago or Tony character to be the spokesman against vile racism.
King of Yellow journalism indeed Ed.
Those were the days of blatant racism by some news rags and the old Herald Examiner (Hearst papers) were the kings.
Funny though we young Chicano kids were oblivious to this racism much of the time because we weren't raised to acknowledge this crap. Our parents mostly just went to work and we kids were taught not to discriminate but to treat others like you would want to be treated yourself, luckily where I grew up (Lincoln Hts), even though mostly Mexican American, we went to school and had friends of almost every ethnicity. Even to this day I have friends from the neighborhood who are half Mexican half Italian, Half Okie half Mexican, half Mexican half Jewish, half Chinese half Mexican, and on and on.
I still laugh when remembering my Tio Pete castigating us kids for crying, when on the old Disney TV Show, "Davy Crockett" was killed by the evil Mexicans at the Alamo.
(He said we kids were really confused about history), but we didn't care we just wanted a fake coonskin cap like Davy wore, 80 cents at the Woolworth store.
I used to sell the Herald Examiner and the Mirror, on the corner of Griffin and N. Broadway to the people on foot, in cars, in the numerous bar's and on the streetcar island, and now I laugh thinking about how I would yell out the racist "EXTRA" headlines that the Herald would print up at least a couple of times a week it seemed.
There I was, a 9 or 10 year old Chicanito screaming at the top of my lungs, Extra,Extra! Read all about it! get your Herald Examiner here! Mexicans arrested in local white businessman's murder!
Always in bold black print at the top of the page and usually about some Mexican or Black (Negro at the time) crime.
I'd run out in the street give them the paper and collect my dime, (saved up enough to buy a genuine Marlon Brando leather coat like he wore in "On the Waterfront"), the white folks always had this look of consternation on they're faces but most of the customers were Chicano or Italian who didn't give a shit about the headlines, but would always shout out, "hey kid you got the late edition with the green sheet there?"
They only cared about the green sheet because it had the latest race results from Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, and the odds, daily doubles, and hot tips for the next day's races .
The green sheet kept that old rag alive for years.
Don Quixote why don't you tell us the story of how you stabbed a mayate in the ass, you vile, disgusting racist!!
It's your ilk, who spew such vitriol, you who call a human being a mayate and monkey, you disgust us !!!!
You remember, come on Don Q. u member.
don quixote you don't want to comment on how you feel about blacks here? there are a number of rascist post you put up at other sites why not here.
don quixote its funny how you show up here and then all of the suddon you have santiago,drinking with tony,prof erwin, and all the other names you used at ith here.
Don Quackers aka Tiny aka Santiago,
Your blah...blah...blah...blah...
is getting tiresome and boring start your own blog and see if anybody gives a shit about what you have to say!!!
You and cast of wacky characters, have posted just about every comment on this blog.
Damn! The man has a complete bevy of earnest fans. Que no?
Don Cholo the writes racist....
"Funny though we young Chicano kids were oblivious to this racism much of the time because we weren't raised to acknowledge this crap."
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Don Q. is there no limit to your bullshit and hypocrisy?
How do you explain your calling blacks “changes” (monkeys), “mayates”, “chanates” and worse?
Since you love to tell stories, please tell us that story about when you were a young cholo and your friend hit the "mayate" with a news-stand and you stabbed the “mayate”.
You remember bragging about that don't you?
Would you like me to post that story from the other site (http://inthehat.blogspot.com/), where you are the cholo and mexican mafia cheer-leader?
It's also funny how hundreds of thousands of Mexicans abandon Mexico to relocate here each year, and once they're here, they soon start complaining how bad it it is and become "Xicanos." What a joke.
She fake posts about gangs cause she got her culo spanked by Antonios administration and LAPD. This one crazy thinks a new mayor wl unbanish her and restore her woebegone glory.
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