Stan Chambers, 91

KTLA is reporting that the legendary Los Angeles journalist, Stan Chambers, who worked at the station for over 60 years, has passed away at the age of 91. Chambers retired from KTLA in 2010.

For more, please read the story at KTLA's web site.

Chambers was a class act and his passing is a sad moment when journalism appears to be in a free fall of ethical lapses and failure to do it's appointed role as a check on government and society.

Perhaps we will have another Stan in the future. We send our condolences to the Chambers family.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday

Mulholland Terrace brings to our attention perhaps a poor employment decision made by Councilman Bill Rosendahl in the hiring of new spokes-hole Jon Fairbanks, an import from Canada.  As MT notes could Rosendahl not find a gay publicist in all of Los Angeles? More of concern is the audit trail of stories written by Fairbanks, a scribe out of Quebec, who blogs about "Anglophone bitches" and desiring to keep those women who like to party with gay men out of the bars.

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