Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday
The City Council wants to give the Grammy Awards $125,000 to cover event costs borne by the City. Yes we hear the usual spin that these events bring so much to Los Angeles (they do) and that the cost is merely an investment (see here where I take that argument apart). The recording industry is apparently pleading poverty yet pop princess Britney Spears has acquired a $27,000 ring to wear to the show. If the City Council doesn't have the fortitude to say now in this time of budget crisis, we once again raise our call to the Grammy organization to step up and say "we will decline the subsidy, we know the City that has nurtured, supported and enrichened us for over 50 years is hurting." Don't hold your breath folks! Marc Cooper becomes the latest "journo" to go bitter man on his former employer. Like a less disciplined Kevin Roderick, Cooper's rambling screed spewing all over the LA Weekly is filled with personal invective which obscures what few good points Cooper might have. Cooper wastes an enormous part of his digital ink on the absurd claim that Zuma Dogg's piece on the controversial Grand Avenue development in Downtown LA was actually written by weekly editor Jill Stewart. One wonders if Zuma Dogg was challenging George Bush on a regular basis instead of the unaware elites' favorite kleptocrat Mayor if Cooper would view Zuma differently.
The nanny state continues unmolested as Los Angeles City Council Member "Sleeping" Greig Smith wants to ban smoking in outdoor areas of restaurants. This old, dead, Republican mayor never smoked, hates smoking and doesn't like to be around it. That being said I don't need the government to decide where people can and can't smoke; the market does that just fine. In fact, Tom LaBonge confirms it when he tells the Los Angeles Tmes “The patrons are really demanding it.” That's right Tom. The smart establishments get it and many of them banned smoking way before the City told them to.
Los Angeles has undertaken a $2 million campaign to encourage tourism. Tom Hanks, Kobe Bryant and Lauren Conrad are among the celebrities appearing in the "That's So LA" campaign now underway. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told reporters "During this tough period, one of the sectors taking the biggest hit is tourism. Families are cutting back on travel. In some cities, that might not matter too much."
The Daily News reports the recession has hit hard a number of upscale businesses on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. However a shoe repair shop and a fitness center that underwent a makeover report either no impact or increased sales.
Central City East blogger Don Garza says that a number of residents of the Skid Row hotel he lives in are complaining that the hotel management routinely enters their units in violation of their rights. Garza is among several of the residents who have posted legal notices on their doors directing the management to keep out.
Labels: fee waivers, grammys, greig smith, LA City Council, la weekly, Marc Cooper, nanny state, recession
Posted by Michael Higby @ 1/12/2009 02:00:00 AM
16 Comments:
Give me a break...the Emmy's have corporate sponsors and the money the show profits from can most certainly pay an event waiver. Let them go to NY if they want. These morons who have wasted MILLIONS IN FEE WAIVERS TO CORPORATE EVENTS ARE SHAMEFUL. WE don't have any leadership in this damn city. Why should anyone want to come to LA when you have a Mayor who spends ALL his time in front of a camera doing nothing? I counted 6 times in the last week he did nothing but put his face on tv.
.....That gang intervention worker arrested in a robbery and beating over the weekend had previously been featured on a Fox 11 report about city funding of gang members that was denied by Councilwoman Janice Hahn.
It's Monday morning, and Zuma Dog is still using a parking meter as his home address.
Word has it that he's upset that his mortgage has gone up from 25 cents per hour to a dollar.
When asked how he's dealing with this crisis, the homeless prospective candidate for mayor just said, "yea, yea, boyeeeeee."
$125,000 in fee waivers isn't the determining factor as to whether the Emmy's stay in L.A. or not.
That's chump change.
I must have arrived. Marc Cooper calls me "absurd" on his blog.
"Word has it that he's upset that his mortgage has gone up from 25 cents per hour to a dollar."
LOL! F-ing hilarious! It's gotta be U!
Hibgy, is it sinking in yet?
You think others are obsessed with zd, but you provide him vastly more coverage than anyone else! There is no venue you can point to where he gets more coverage than here on ms.
That my friend is the height of absurdity. The coverage you give to a guy with no home address, and who can't manage a weekly shower and trip to the coin laundry is the perennial hot topic on the mayor sam web site.
What makes things absurd is how you are the only one who has been suckered in, for so long, and with such consistency.
Yes, it is very good foir your clickety clicks as haku-low used to say.
Spintard has been blogging away all morning about Zuma Dogg.
He should really see a counselor.
Does the City health plan offer those benefits?
Guess the only people allowed to express a thought on zuma tard is zuma tard and fat tard. So b it.
That gangbanger/ intervention worker Bow-Wow Jones robbed another rapper says the LA Times. One Boyz in the Hood to another, no innocent animals were harmed in the making of that crime.
As for Marc Cooper, I support the comments on the previous blog wishing Patrick a Happy Birthday -- Marc's absolutely right about Jill Stewart being a political hack who was hired to fire the real journalists and to use only a few cheap ones who would do "fast and dirty hit pieces," like the infamous 11% Mayor one, which does not count travel time, time lobbying state and fed officials or rich people for money, needed photo ops like showing up at fires and floods, as well as the modeling for the wax thing. Agree that he seems illiterate and unread but that doesn't excuse Jill Stewart and the Weekly and its Voice owners from being hacks.
Marc is absolutely right that using an idiot like dogg to 'write" a piece that she totally wrote to be intelligible, when he is the biggest gadfly nuisance on the scene at city meeting he's then told to "report" on, is utter lack of journalistic ethics. No decent paper would ever do this.
They then used him as their mascot on the end of public access story, even though not just Marc Cooper but every respected journalist AND cable show provider cringed in horror, knowing they'd all be reduced to laughinstocks by association and the cause too.
Sure Marc is a jerk himself and I believe the poster who said he broke wind loudly then said F-off to the person who dared flinch in disgust. That's how Cooper writes too, crudely, dismissively of anyone who's not way to the left, like his gen of 60's aging hippies and former Malcolm X sympathizers.
They all think and write like this is still the 60's and the "minorities" are voiceless and the white man rulese good schools and federal money and shuts the "people of color" out of the media coverage. Whereas the situation has pretty much flipped at least in L A. Cooper's endless hatchett jobs on Hilary were obnoxious and he deserved to be fired long ago.
He and his ilk are the reason there is a neo-conservatism among younger people and why the "old" leftist Weekly he misses is not mourned by hardly anyone else.
But Marc is still a brilliant wordsmith and does old-school research on his non-opinion pieces and is a real journalist when he's not being a jerk. He knows the diff between that and a hack and quacks like crazy dogg and the ones Stewart hires to front for her so she can write words into their mouths.
(Read zdogg's comments on Marccooper.com blog, on the Autopsy of the Weekly: like Marc notes, the more zdogg tries to defend his "integrity" the more he proves Marc's point.) As for Higby taking being called "absurd" a compliment -- OK, you've arrived. Where, I don't know, but it's in cahoots with zdogg.
Marc was off base to say that Jill re-wrote Zuma's piece when the truth is the piece was on his blog well before the Weekly posted it. Yes Jill cleaned it up but my understanding that is the role of an editor, no?
Sounds like most of the boys who are bitching about Jill are those she turned down for a blow job.
Could you imagine giving a blow job to Cooper? Pardon me while I barf.
Walter Moore?
3:09 could you be anyone else other than Marc Cooper? I don't think so. Keep trying to drum up interest. Feels good to be in the spotlight for a second, does it?
Marc keep driving up Sam's clackety clacks ok?
Ok - last message about Cooper's flatulence -
3:59 are you saying that Cooper wrote about himself farting?
Why the F is Britney Spears going to an awards show? Isn't she supposed to be under treatment?
She could've killed somebody while driving like a maniac on an out-of-state license.
Somebody should throw her sorry ass in jail.
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