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My Sunday Column: Glendale — It isn’t utopia, but it’s far from LA, the dystopia next door

Once long ago, during my year as an old-fashioned rewrite-man at the National Enquirer, the demonic man who owned and ran the tabloid as if it and its journalists were a figment of his over-active imagination sent a reporter around … Continue reading

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Don’t Cry for Rupert Murdoch — He Had It Coming

Rupert Murdoch had it coming for a long, long time. I was there back in 1975 at the height of the greatest constitutional and political crisis in Australian history when Murdoch showed his contempt for truth, for journalistic integrity, for … Continue reading

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