Press Play with Madeleine Brand
New York Times draws fury for explaining LA to Angelenos
The New York Times yesterday published a front page story that portrayed Southern California as a place of aimless urban sprawl, no civic institutions, and a newspaper in turmoil. Angelenos used choice words to bash the article on Twitter.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe New York Times yesterday published a front page story that portrayed Southern California as a place of aimless urban sprawl, no civic institutions, and a newspaper in turmoil. Angelenos used choice words to bash the article on Twitter. Some pointed out factual errors. Others said it was another example of The New York Times describing LA as an inferior city.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Gina Pollack
Producer
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Adam Nagourney
Los Angeles-based national political reporter for the New York Times
Carolina Miranda
culture critic and author of KCRW’s Art Insider newsletter
The full episode
2 of 5LA Phil performs Leonard Bernstein's Vietnam-era 'Mass'- 0:00The long history of how LA's homeless crisis got to this point
- 7:26New York Times draws fury for explaining LA to AngelenosYou’re reading this
- 15:49Month after mudslides, Santa Barbara gets back on its feet
- 26:31Leonard Bernstein's Vietnam War-era symphony comes to Disney Hall
- 40:41Can dockless bikes help solve LA’s traffic problem?