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f6095c6f233dc5cb19ab0fa4291b13bf | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medicaid-trump-20180820-story.html | Column: Despite a judge’s disapproval, Trump administration is doubling down on Medicaid restrictions | Column: Despite a judge’s disapproval, Trump administration is doubling down on Medicaid restrictions
In the real world, it has become clear that placing restrictions such as work and reporting requirements on Medicaid is disastrous.
They’re legally dubious, for one thing — as a federal judge stated in late June when h... |
246d5beecba1111a1b4afa630d919dea | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medicare-universal-20170818-story.html | Column: Here’s how expanding Medicare could set us on the path to universal health coverage | Column: Here’s how expanding Medicare could set us on the path to universal health coverage
With Republicans seeming to have abandoned their repeal-or-bust attack on the Affordable Care Act, the path to improving Americans’ health coverage is wide open.
That has given the idea of single-payer a jump-start. But it hasn’... |
d078df209f64d3f5fdb36e18b1d6164f | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mnuchin-20180430-story.html | Column: Steve Mnuchin finally finds a respectful audience in Southern California | Column: Steve Mnuchin finally finds a respectful audience in Southern California
The last time Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gave a speech in Southern California, he was treated so impolitely that he demanded that a video of the event not be released.
Eventually, UCLA, the sponsor of the Feb. 26 event, concluded th... |
46382439afd53086a95e5d165b494a0c | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mockingbird-snap-htmlstory.html | Column: The latest news on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ shows how big corporations control copyright law | Column: The latest news on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ shows how big corporations control copyright law
The copyright history of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" long ago crossed into the byzantine realm. But the latest development in the saga points to how copyright law has been perverted to serve the wr... |
b37668d4b819409bf9f0ed34cb595577 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mortality-social-security-20180912-story.html | Column: A growing mortality gap is letting the rich get richer from Social Security | Column: A growing mortality gap is letting the rich get richer from Social Security
One of the few bulwarks in the world against the increasing inequality separating rich and poor has been Social Security.
The program is broadly progressive, meaning it’s relatively more beneficial for lower-income recipients. But that’... |
069be166c335a42b81c6379210441bf6 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mulvaney-disability-20170319-story.html | Column: Trump’s budget director revives a fact-free conservative attack on disability recipients | Column: Trump’s budget director revives a fact-free conservative attack on disability recipients
Appearing Sunday on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” President Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, engaged in a drive-by shooting of some the nation’s neediest and most defenseless people: the disabled.
Mulvaney’s att... |
e79a33407adab3de1b131bc0fc45f7de | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-musk-sec-shareholders-20190228-story.html | Column: If the SEC’s punishment of Elon Musk harms Tesla shareholders, it’s their own fault | Column: If the SEC’s punishment of Elon Musk harms Tesla shareholders, it’s their own fault
A curious, not to say bizarre, line of chatter has emerged in connection with the fight between Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The argument seems to be that the SEC is wary of coming ... |
e45728e43b9cebe8a22b113e9c2c6340 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-musk-tesla-20180503-story.html | Column: Elon Musk’s performance on Tesla’s earnings call could make people afraid to buy his stock — or his cars | Column: Elon Musk’s performance on Tesla’s earnings call could make people afraid to buy his stock — or his cars
It goes without saying that taking questions from Wall Street investment analysts about company earnings ranks as the least favorite duty of many CEOs, especially when the earnings numbers are as grim as, sa... |
9d82cfda7caf7efe25265be6daaaaa12 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ncaa-california-20190628-story.html | Column: NCAA threatens California over pay for college athletes — and loses the battle | Column: NCAA threatens California over pay for college athletes — and loses the battle
It’s always fun to see a bully get upended in the schoolyard. So we should be grateful to the NCAA for providing us with such a spectacle in Sacramento — and for demonstrating, in the process, its increasing irrelevance.
The issue on... |
5f12d054f62ca491ab6e9d9c9f6f5ecf | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-nlrb-jpoint-employer-20160713-snap-story.html | Column: Labor regulators strike another blow against employers shortchanging workers | Column: Labor regulators strike another blow against employers shortchanging workers
Labor regulators have had their hands full keeping track of all the methods employers use to disavow responsibility for their employees. In a decision issued Monday, the National Labor Relations Board drew a firm line through one maneu... |
f0501b50b0346c7f51c074b3145ff863 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-notre-dame-20171101-story.html | Column: Ending birth control coverage, Notre Dame abandons its progressive legacy on women’s rights | Column: Ending birth control coverage, Notre Dame abandons its progressive legacy on women’s rights
The University of Notre Dame, which once reigned as a beacon of liberal Catholic thought, has announced that it will cancel all birth-control coverage for students and employees next year. That includes contraception pro... |
911700b4cad11c1e71a1b10b06522b1a | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obama-silicon-valley-20161017-snap-story.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits | Column: President Obama schools Silicon Valley CEOs on why government is not like business | Column: President Obama schools Silicon Valley CEOs on why government is not like business
The hoariest chestnut in the larder of anti-government conservatives is that government should be run like a business. This assertion is typically just a stalking horse for policies that narrowly benefit conservative patrons — lo... |
ae414f0bbf6fffcf47976b775337589e | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-repeal-manatt-20170721-story.html | Column: Under Senate’s Obamacare repeal, some Americans would have to pay more than their total income for health coverage | Column: Under Senate’s Obamacare repeal, some Americans would have to pay more than their total income for health coverage
One of the ostensibly brilliant ideas in Senate Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act is to move low-income families from Medicaid to the private insurance marketplace, allowing them ... |
6fcab1a564998c4d82b1b06bdbe82358 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ohtani-stemcell-20180906-story.html | Column: With Ohtani injury, it’s three strikes and out for the stem cell scam | Column: With Ohtani injury, it’s three strikes and out for the stem cell scam
As one of the increasingly demoralized fans of the Los Angeles Angels, I took the latest news about Shohei Ohtani almost in stride. The Angels, you may have heard, announced Thursday that their star pitching prospect from Japan had suffered a... |
b6678500d8a8577c1ce104c1eb6a2406 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-online-publishers-20160909-snap-story.html | Column: A little S.F. personal injury case threatens ‘most important law’ on the Internet | Column: A little S.F. personal injury case threatens ‘most important law’ on the Internet
To hear San Francisco lawyer Dawn Hassell tell it, Ava Bird was a nightmare client. Here’s how their dispute could become a nightmare for some of the biggest companies on the Internet — and their users.
Hassell’s law firm signed o... |
8473af192612af0102e74f988f1f41bd | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-pbm-drugs-20170611-story.html | Column: How ‘price-cutting’ middlemen are making crucial drugs vastly more expensive | Column: How ‘price-cutting’ middlemen are making crucial drugs vastly more expensive
Diabetes doctor Irl B. Hirsch has watched with dismay as more of his Seattle-area patients take life-threatening steps to deal with the soaring price of insulin.
Some need two vials a week of the crucial medicine, at $300 per vial. Man... |
c2649dcedd53e15639e228a1ad465800 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-port-truckers-20170702-story.html | Column: Port truckers who carry your favorite goods to market are being cheated to save you money | Column: Port truckers who carry your favorite goods to market are being cheated to save you money
Juan Lara was headed back to the Port of Los Angeles two weeks ago from his daily pickup in the Mojave Desert when his truck erupted with engine trouble. He managed to bring the truck and its 50,000-pound load of borax lim... |
f0c059082e1396a2a1e21dbbf93aba8a | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-pre-existing-20181211-story.html | Column: The Trump administration unveils a stealth attack on people with preexisting conditions | Column: The Trump administration unveils a stealth attack on people with preexisting conditions
Trump administration officials apparently are prepared to go to their graves insisting that they did everything possible to protect Americans with preexisting medical conditions, even as they pull out the stops to undermine ... |
7b8719da9dbe0d9265011bf3b46183ef | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-privacy-law-loophole-20190429-story.html | Column: This pro-business bill would destroy California’s landmark privacy act | Column: This pro-business bill would destroy California’s landmark privacy act
The business community’s campaign to reduce California’s landmark privacy law to a shadow continues apace, with what privacy advocates call the biggest threat due for a committee hearing this week.
The measure is Assembly Bill 1416, which is... |
887bb3bbf234a711b91ce93be6a954b9 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-proposition13-split-roll-20190329-story.html | Column: A change to Proposition 13 that homeowners can get behind | Column: A change to Proposition 13 that homeowners can get behind
Could a reassessment of Proposition 13 finally be in the wings?
Advocates of the long-needed change have their fingers crossed, now that a measure to revise Proposition 13 has qualified for the November 2020 ballot.
The initiative wouldn’t involve a whol... |
7128d2cd782c8b8dc0c57d027f6c4d49 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-remington-bk-20180327-story.html | Column: Is the Sandy Hook massacre the real impetus behind the Remington Arms bankruptcy? | Column: Is the Sandy Hook massacre the real impetus behind the Remington Arms bankruptcy?
Remington Outdoor Co., the owner of the century-old Remington gun company and other firearms manufacturers, made crystal clear that financial strains were behind its bankruptcy filing Monday.
The company said that it had ramped up... |
f696eb2cdb78d0c644a4d26e4e10bde2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ryan-20180411-story.html | Column: Paul Ryan’s congressional career is ending, but his legacy of lies will survive | Column: Paul Ryan’s congressional career is ending, but his legacy of lies will survive
Say this for House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who announced his pending retirement from Congress on Wednesday. Of all his powers, the ability to cloud Washington journalists’ minds was the most remarkable.
Time after time, Ryan ... |
8ee51b022a9276be6d483ec9887527f1 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-saudi-threat-20160418-snap-htmlstory.html | Column: Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell $750 billion in U.S. assets. Talk about an empty threat. | Column: Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell $750 billion in U.S. assets. Talk about an empty threat.
The latest shudder in the long-running international drama known as U.S.-Saudi Arabian relations occurred late last week, with a report that the Saudi government had threatened economic retaliation over a bill in Congre... |
64b914e1af2d15283d0bc63dde407bde | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-sessions-sanctuary-20180917-story.html | Column: Another judge slaps down Jeff Sessions for trying to punish ‘sanctuary’ cities like L.A. | Column: Another judge slaps down Jeff Sessions for trying to punish ‘sanctuary’ cities like L.A.
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions must be getting tired of so much winning in his campaign to punish cities and states with the temerity to challenge his attempted crackdown on immigration.
In the latest episode, U.S. Judge Manuel L... |
d389da153bcd776089a2a100b499b436 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-social-security-children-20160815-snap-story.html | Column: On Social Security’s 81st anniversary, a reminder that it’s also a lifeline for children | Column: On Social Security’s 81st anniversary, a reminder that it’s also a lifeline for children
One of the raps on Social Security is that it supposedly pits the older generation against the younger.
This seems intuitive — after all, retired Americans collect the benefits but those in the working population make all t... |
e40c5d2b734679aab12390d856c508df | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-social-security-expansion-20190130-story.html | Column: A new proposal to expand Social Security would make it much better for working Americans | Column: A new proposal to expand Social Security would make it much better for working Americans
Feeling their progressive oats after a few years in the wilderness, House Democrats on Tuesday revived a proposal to increase and expand Social Security benefits while making the program more solvent for the foreseeable fut... |
3fb9844961bf72931fc36b26c680aa66 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-social-security-fiscal-health-20190422-story.html | Column: Surprise! Social Security has gotten healthier | Column: Surprise! Social Security has gotten healthier
The crux of the conservative attack on Social Security in recent years has been the claim that the program is on an unbroken path to insolvency. Monday’s release of the Social Security trustees’ annual report knocks a pillar out from under that campaign, for it sho... |
4f5374325696fa729e2da932fbb3b6cf | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-social-security-gop-20161209-story.html | Column: The GOP unveils a ‘permanent save’ for Social Security — with massive benefit cuts | Column: The GOP unveils a ‘permanent save’ for Social Security — with massive benefit cuts
Amid all the hand-wringing over Republican plans to eviscerate Medicare and Medicaid and repeal the Affordable Care Act, it shouldn’t be overlooked that the GOP has the knives out for Social Security too.
The latest reminde... |
04cd445c1443c80f6c0a3c6f41e5320d | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-spectrum-new-york-20180731-story.html | Column: In shocker, fed-up regulators move to kick Spectrum cable out of New York state | Column: In shocker, fed-up regulators move to kick Spectrum cable out of New York state
Here’s something you don’t see every day: Fed up with what they say are two years of lies and broken promises from Charter Communications, New York regulators are kicking the huge cable company out of the state.
The New York Public ... |
a6c7bb7936a60d9739c146ee8e0a6a62 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-starbucks-hours-20180730-story.html | Column: California Supreme Court has a radical idea: Employees should be paid for all their work time | Column: California Supreme Court has a radical idea: Employees should be paid for all their work time
“Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves” is a cherished old adage sometimes attributed (incorrectly) to that avatar of thrift, Ben Franklin.
When it comes to businesses paying wages, how... |
50e3c3e8980e81ee5628fffaecc3d787 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-stem-cell-documentary-20190617-story.html | Column:: Legit stem cell experts in uproar over inclusion in film funded by suspect clinics | Column:: Legit stem cell experts in uproar over inclusion in film funded by suspect clinics
If there’s anything that drives legitimate stem cell scientists up a wall, it’s their being lumped in with clinics offering unwary customers supposedly effective disease treatments through stem cell injections.
So you can unders... |
5d302103e55e22292ca4aeb5a7099e45 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-stemgenex-20170330-story.html | Column: The stem cell therapies offered by this La Jolla clinic aren’t FDA approved, may not work — and cost $15,000 | Column: The stem cell therapies offered by this La Jolla clinic aren’t FDA approved, may not work — and cost $15,000
Jim Durgeloh, 59, was desperate to avoid surgery. After a career as a construction contractor and hours of leisure time spent on a motorcycle around his Longview, Wash., home, he was facing an operation ... |
a0bd981efe93cca91286491e60c49a11 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-talc-cancer-20170707-story.html | Column: Is junk science about to enter an L.A. courtroom in a lawsuit over ovarian cancer? | Column: Is junk science about to enter an L.A. courtroom in a lawsuit over ovarian cancer?
Toward the end of the great adventure movie “A High Wind in Jamaica,” a gang of pirates is sentenced to hang for a murder they didn’t commit.
“I don’t want to die innocent!” a crewman cries out to his captaI in.
“Zac,” replies th... |
503e9240719292b3e3e160d167393abd | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-tesla-20160404-snap-htmlstory.html | Column: Tesla brought down by ‘hubris’? Who could have expected that? | Column: Tesla brought down by ‘hubris’? Who could have expected that?
Tesla Motors Inc. pulled a pretty slick fake-out on investors and fans Monday by revealing, to their surprise, that it had delivered only 14,820 cars to customers in the first quarter of 2016, well short of its projected deliveries of 16,000 cars. Te... |
f93b64008c7bbaa0c9ead4f7f331dbf2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-tesla-autopilot-flaw-20190522-story.html | Column: Report: Tesla’s new Autopilot feature is dumber than human drivers | Column: Report: Tesla’s new Autopilot feature is dumber than human drivers
The Holy Grail of self-driving technology, so its promoters tell us, is to replace the error-prone idiot behind the wheel with a flawlessly discerning and safer system of sensors and software.
By that standard, a new version of Tesla’s Navigate ... |
39f098a241740fb4d304134eabc79ac1 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-archive-canada-20161212-story.html | Column: Trump’s attacks on free speech and the open Internet send a huge web archive fleeing to Canada | Column: Trump’s attacks on free speech and the open Internet send a huge web archive fleeing to Canada
Popular interest in fleeing to Canada after the election of Donald Trump may have ebbed since a surge of inquiries crashed Canada’s immigration website on election night. But one Internet advocate and entrepreneur is ... |
9696de2777e1bcdb1484357ccbb781a2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-carrier-20161207-story.html | Column: Trump’s Carrier jobs triumph looks more like a sham every day | Column: Trump’s Carrier jobs triumph looks more like a sham every day
I was taking some time off last week, when Donald Trump announced his big rescue of jobs at a Carrier furnace factory in Indianapolis, so I’ve needed a few days to catch up.
One thing was clear even on Dec. 1, when Trump made his announcement on the ... |
afed201605d3e19ca0111c5fb9bc7c70 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-china-20160802-snap-story.html | Column: Forget the squalling baby; Trump’s comments about China on Tuesday were the worse tantrum | Column: Forget the squalling baby; Trump’s comments about China on Tuesday were the worse tantrum
The big news takeaway from Donald Trump’s rally Tuesday in Ashburn, Va., was that he got irritated by a crying baby and ordered the tot and its mother out of the hall.
This was sadly typical of the tendency of the Trump ca... |
f5228530eb0828953fe3625d49f946f3 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-code-20170824-story.html | Column: “I-M-P-E-A-C-H”: People quitting Trump are now doing so in code | Column: “I-M-P-E-A-C-H”: People quitting Trump are now doing so in code
UC Berkeley scientist Daniel Kammen resigned Wednesday from his post as science envoy to the State Department. Among the reasons he cited in his resignation letter was Trump’s “failure to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis” in the wake of dea... |
8f4f70ae0b95399c018b23ae3ba1ca70 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-conscience-rule-20190701-story.html | Column: Facing torrent of legal challenges, Trump defers antiabortion ‘conscience’ rule | Column: Facing torrent of legal challenges, Trump defers antiabortion ‘conscience’ rule
What does it take to force the Trump administration to back off from a manifestly irresponsible and ill-considered policy?
An answer may have come Friday, when the White House agreed to delay a so-called conscience rule that could h... |
6a4b0db738378dbbf50ebc9f937697bd | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-farm-bailout-20190528-story.html?fbclid=IwAR31-DjnjCSsmFh3DXlduGIZlPlrMQZ4bArUYnOi6SAPpmMt_KhiUk3RfDw | Column: Rich farmers, not mom-and-pop farms, will collect most of Trump’s tariff bailout | Column: Rich farmers, not mom-and-pop farms, will collect most of Trump’s tariff bailout
The lone valiant farmer struggling to eke an existence from his hardscrabble farm — that’s the image President Trump wants you to think about when contemplating the $28 billion in bailouts he’s spending to cover farm losses from hi... |
8e4c1f7498fedf4ebd8e1537ed06448c | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-kidney-obamacare-20190711-story.html | Column: Trump’s vaunted kidney initiative depends on Obamacare, which he’s trying to kill | Column: Trump’s vaunted kidney initiative depends on Obamacare, which he’s trying to kill
President Trump was showered in praise Wednesday when he unveiled an initiative to fix the country’s wretched and ridiculously expensive system for dealing with kidney disease.
Only one problem. Trump’s plan depends on the Afforda... |
86ba88595c2018d3db15cda3a63b1be3 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-pence-fundraising-20160719-snap-story.html | Column: How Trump’s V.P. choice could throttle his fundraising chances | Column: How Trump’s V.P. choice could throttle his fundraising chances
The Trump campaign’s fundraising record thus far is nothing to brag about. But legal authorities have begun noticing that by choosing a sitting governor, Indiana’s Mike Pence, as his running mate, Donald Trump has probably shut down any hope of big ... |
6ae1f9b5af8ded98820c32434acffcc2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-university-20161021-snap-story.html | Column: Trump asks to exclude his comments about the Trump University judge from the Trump University trial | Column: Trump asks to exclude his comments about the Trump University judge from the Trump University trial
We may need a new definition of “chutzpah.”
Donald Trump targeted federal Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel in an an extended series of bigoted rants this summer, asserting that Curiel couldn’t rule fairly in cases allegin... |
80f810861467ade9428de865344faea9 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-turbotax-lawsuit-20190506-story.html | Column: TurboTax and H&R Block are sued for allegedly keeping Americans from filing taxes for free | Column: TurboTax and H&R Block are sued for allegedly keeping Americans from filing taxes for free
It is a truth universally acknowledged that preparing and filing your taxes causes pain comparable only to root canal or passing a kidney stone.
If you’re looking for someone to blame, look to the commercial tax preparati... |
d33ba263f6de66872d58da093b7479d6 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uber-austin-20160509-snap-story.html | Column: A high-tech hub just voted to call Uber’s bluff on tougher regulation | Column: A high-tech hub just voted to call Uber’s bluff on tougher regulation
The business model of companies like the ride-matching services Uber and Lyft is based on flouting regulations that taxi companies and other competitors have to meet. So when the the city council of Austin, Texas, voted last year to mandate f... |
31b9160f67e5d037432126b7b5d3e9a4 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uber-fare-increase-20190531-story.html | Column: As was predicted, Uber’s IPO means you’ll be paying higher fares for your rides | Column: As was predicted, Uber’s IPO means you’ll be paying higher fares for your rides
Uber’s first-quarter earnings report released Thursday — its first since the ride-hailing company went public on May 10 — disclosed more than the financial condition of the company.
It also opened a window on the economic reality of... |
9034af3f4a355fdae48a2eca2f8fde60 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uber-report-20170618-story.html | Column: Uber’s big report proves that the company still doesn’t understand its problems | Column: Uber’s big report proves that the company still doesn’t understand its problems
Uber and its fans hastened Tuesday to declare that, with the long-awaited publication of an investigation of its frat-boy office environment by former U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, the company was ready to move on. As board member Ar... |
b3a955ae947a61dae3a69a771acdbd0c | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uc-elsevier-20181207-story.html?_amp=true | In UC’s battle with the world’s largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake | In UC’s battle with the world’s largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake
Boiled down to dollars and cents, the battle between the University of California, the nation’s premier producer of academic research, and Reed Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of academic journals, can seem almos... |
19b88658b7dd45b95e4b1c035611f18e | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-verma-maternity-20170224-story.html | Column: Trump’s pick to run Medicare and Medicaid thinks maternity coverage should be optional. Here’s why she’s wrong | Column: Trump’s pick to run Medicare and Medicaid thinks maternity coverage should be optional. Here’s why she’s wrong
Seema Verma, an Indiana health consultant and bureaucrat nominated by President Trump to run Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, put in a word for individual choice on health insurance bene... |
80861a3f26d1be8010a91169992dabdb | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-wells-arbitration-20170407-story.html | Column: Here’s why Wells Fargo forces its customers into arbitration: It wins most of the time | Column: Here’s why Wells Fargo forces its customers into arbitration: It wins most of the time
The insistence by Wells Fargo that the victims of its bogus account-opening scandal seek redress via arbitration, rather than in court, remains the best indication that the bank’s promise to “make things right” for those cust... |
a3384b34b38cc12023757d2361bc834e | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-wells-settlement-20170331-story.html | Column: No surprise: Wells Fargo is leveraging its arbitration clause to win an advantageous scandal settlement | Column: No surprise: Wells Fargo is leveraging its arbitration clause to win an advantageous scandal settlement
Followers of the Wells Fargo scandal, in which bank employees opened as many as 2 million checking, savings and credit card accounts behind customers’ backs in order to meet their own quotas, may have been su... |
ed7c4219d6a80970eeaa431648459745 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-a-huge-water-district-defends-a-secret-handout-20150929-column.html | A huge water district defends a secret handout | A huge water district defends a secret handout
The Westlands Water District, which reached a legal settlement with the federal government earlier this month after months of confidential negotiations, takes issue with my description of the deal as a secret arrangement that guarantees the district a permanent water suppl... |
a5b2af429d1bc1c67e50613c7ad85ff8 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-a-look-inside-the-chemical-industry-20150515-column.html | Exposed: The chemical industry’s fake grass-roots lobbying for fire retardants | Exposed: The chemical industry’s fake grass-roots lobbying for fire retardants
Grant D. Gillham stepped to the microphone in a California State Senate hearing chamber on April 13 and spoke out in favor of a bill mandating the labeling of children’s products containing flame retardant chemicals.
What made Gillham’s appe... |
b6d2f523a1f3e218fd74789774b81c78 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-amazing-fact-20150107-column.html | Amazing fact: Obamacare ‘beyond repair,’ yet brings insurance to millions | Amazing fact: Obamacare ‘beyond repair,’ yet brings insurance to millions
When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, you have two choices about what to believe. You can go with objective statistics from Gallup, a respected survey organization, which indicate that the law has increased the number of Americans with health... |
d79452a64e7abfd998d9b19a64da8125 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-californias-stem-cell-scandal-20140725-column.html | California’s stem cell scandal gets worse | California’s stem cell scandal gets worse
Anyone who cares about the advance of medical science and about the promise of biotechnology should be dismayed by how badly the California stem cell agency has handled its latest conflict-of-interest scandal.
We reported on the scandal last week, but developments since then ar... |
29cdee9debbe63417e4c8095fecb9eb5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-cfpb-republicans-20150723-column.html | Consumer protection: Why do Republicans hate the CFPB so much? | Consumer protection: Why do Republicans hate the CFPB so much?
The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill turned 5 years old this week, and conservative Republicans, who didn’t like the measure in the first place, predictably have been withering in their scorn. Perhaps not coincidentally, so have big bankers and the U.S. Cha... |
ee0509f1f992f82a79dacc0ac7d785eb | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-comcast-discovers-the-drawbacks-20150427-column.html | Comcast discovers the drawbacks of bad behavior | Comcast discovers the drawbacks of bad behavior
Comcast customers and their advocates may believe that the cable company’s reputation for wretched service was the key factor in federal regulators’ distaste for its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable, which has now been called off.
It’s probably true that this was on... |
a90f22d78c73740237d3461ac67ba90e | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-goulds-long-goodbye-apartment-20141203-column.html | A true ‘hot property’: Elliott Gould’s ‘Long Goodbye’ apartment is for rent! | A true ‘hot property’: Elliott Gould’s ‘Long Goodbye’ apartment is for rent!
Spotted by the eagle-eyed Erik Loomis, the Hollywood Hills apartment occupied by Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) in Robert Altman’s great 1973 film “The Long Goodbye” is for rent.
According to the post on Craigslist, the price for the one-bedro... |
10a3bcfcfc58f30d173ec2240bf71516 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-heres-why-the-nfls-dropping-its-taxexemption-20150428-column.html | The NFL’s dropping its tax exemption isn’t a good thing. Here’s why. | The NFL’s dropping its tax exemption isn’t a good thing. Here’s why.
The National Football League announced Tuesday that it is voluntarily giving up its federal tax-exempt status, which it says has become a “distraction.”
“The owners have decided to eliminate the distraction associated with misunderstanding of the leag... |
7f7b6a8d91a0110b7b0d8707f4c3d1c5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-how-the-states-destroy-the-fairness-20150413-column.html | How the states suck the fairness out of America’s tax system | How the states suck the fairness out of America’s tax system
Complaints by and on behalf of America’s wealthy about their crushingly unfair tax burden typically reach a crescendo right about now, with the approach of April 15. They also employ highly refined cherry-picking, by referring almost exclusively to the federa... |
7297092818b1c9f8373418a9fb47c6a2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-how-wellness-programs-cost-employers-and-harm-employees-20141202-column.html | Why ‘wellness’ program scams cost employers and harm employees | Why ‘wellness’ program scams cost employers and harm employees
Perhaps the most popular fad at large today in the employee health benefit world is the “wellness” program.
We wrote last month about how some big employers may be using these programs--which include incentives for smoking cessation and weight loss along wi... |
215c5d735a3a0cec18da0a49cc8cd115 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-jenny-mccarthy-antivaxxer-public-menace-20150127-column.html | Jenny McCarthy: anti-vaxxer, public menace | Jenny McCarthy: anti-vaxxer, public menace
To provide context to the ongoing outbreak of measles linked to visits to Disneyland and the influence of the anti-vaccination movement, science writer Seth Mnookin revisits the saga of one of the most celebrated anti-vaxxers, starlet Jenny McCarthy.
Mnookin’s reporting on McC... |
56f19ea2d78dcfe6ee0a3062eac8bd40 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-marijuana-industry-unfair-labor-complaints-20150317-column.html | How we know marijuana industry is maturing: unfair labor practice complaints | How we know marijuana industry is maturing: unfair labor practice complaints
This week the National Labor Relations Board took up an unfair labor practices complaint filed by marijuana workers in New Jersey.
This tells us two things about the business of pot. First, it has matured to the point where its workforce is cl... |
31cc55a61c486e234836e226cb3fda5d | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-reform-20140226-story.html | Another attempt at Obamacare ‘reform’ blows up | Another attempt at Obamacare ‘reform’ blows up
It’s encouraging to see critics actually trying to fix what they see as flaws in the Affordable Care Act-- and disappointing when they do it so ineptly that they make the problem they’re addressing much worse.
That’s what’s happened with the proposed Save American Workers ... |
f06f39fabc77ece08bad239e58be3870 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamas-free-education-proposal-20150109-column.html | Obama’s free education proposal: Why stop at community colleges? | Obama’s free education proposal: Why stop at community colleges?
President Obama’s proposal unveiled Thursday to provide free community college education to all “responsible” students is garnering immense attention. That’s as it should be, although the details still need to be fleshed out and individual states will hav... |
af53e9ed44a31abaa05e61d9cccd8d5d | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-polio-vaccine-20141028-column.html | On Jonas Salk’s 100th birthday, a celebration of his polio vaccine | On Jonas Salk’s 100th birthday, a celebration of his polio vaccine
Few scientific achievements have had as swift and dramatic effect — and been surrounded by as much myth — as the development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, who would have turned 100 on Tuesday.
Salk, who died in 1995, is remembered Tuesday around t... |
e72fa8b519ae03f0300d6c2e55b6f6fb | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-reporting-on-quacks-and-pseudoscience-20150413-column.html | Reporting on quacks and pseudoscience: The problem for journalists | Reporting on quacks and pseudoscience: The problem for journalists
Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about pseudoscience goes much broader.
In part that’s because quack ... |
650c3579dbcc6843d2e3e562011d4a1c | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-scapegoat-20131216-story.html | Employers cut health coverage, find scapegoat: Obamacare | Employers cut health coverage, find scapegoat: Obamacare
If there’s been one inexorable trend coming out of the HR departments of major employers, it’s been the steady erosion of worker pay and benefits. Razor-thin raises, defined benefit pensions replaced by 401(k) plans, shrinking healthcare--if you’ve been on a big ... |
56f32a2fa35e48082b9bbc18829e311d | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-sochi-20131230-story.html | Are the Sochi Olympics heading for disaster? | Are the Sochi Olympics heading for disaster?
Security concerns have been entwined with the planning for every Olympiad at least since Munich 1972. The horrific events in Volgograd in recent days are only a reminder that the Sochi Winter Olympics will open some five weeks from now in a frighteningly unstable part of the... |
36c52914d427edc355df3d2d4a67ce3a | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-tell-me-again-how-obamacare-is-a-disaster-20160304-column.html | Column: Tell me again how Obamacare is a ‘disaster’ | Column: Tell me again how Obamacare is a ‘disaster’
Conservative attacks on the Affordable Care Act long ago took on the qualities of reflexive, empty rhetoric, of the “say it enough and people will believe it” variety.
As it happens, a couple of statistical releases from the U.S. government give the lie to the most pe... |
9a6ae598e792772386463c2f325ceaed | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-anti-union-case-20160111-column.html | Column: The anti-union case being heard today by the Supreme Court: A backgrounder | Column: The anti-union case being heard today by the Supreme Court: A backgrounder
On the surface, Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Assn., which is being argued Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court, looks like a free-speech case. Lead plaintiff Rebecca Friedrichs, an Anaheim schoolteacher, contends that she’s being f... |
673045af742be22e5a26903d90182cb2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-fda-can-single-handedly-stop-20160105-column.html | Column: The FDA can single-handedly reduce drug price-gouging. Why is it waiting? | Column: The FDA can single-handedly reduce drug price-gouging. Why is it waiting?
The crisis in soaring drug prices has produced not merely a new class of public enemies to skewer -- step forward, Martin Shkreli! -- but the best evidence yet that the nation’s healthcare regulatory priorities are out of whack.
How badly... |
fbc70f1e05cf9dc659fc3a92f84ef696 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-nfl-will-pick-san-diegans-pockets-20150518-column.html | Football stadium follies: How the NFL will pick San Diegans’ pockets | Football stadium follies: How the NFL will pick San Diegans’ pockets
One must doff one’s hat to the National Football League. Its talent for siphoning money from taxpayers into the pockets of its team-owning billionaires has never shined so bright. The financing plan for a new stadium for the NFL San Diego Chargers, un... |
5f8a5c334778543a0ce2654af1e157ae | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-supreme-court-20141107-column.html | The Supreme Court puts the screws to 36 state governments | The Supreme Court puts the screws to 36 state governments
No piker when it comes to cliffhanging drama, the Supreme Court late Friday placed the governors and legislatures of 36 states in a corner, by taking up a challenge to the Affordable Care Act that directly threatens their citizens.
The states are those that fail... |
0c6b450b8a9448f086c7d4cc16d23912 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-us-healthcare-system-20140617-column.html | The U.S. healthcare system: worst in the developed world | The U.S. healthcare system: worst in the developed world
The U.S. healthcare system notched another dubious honor in a new comparison of its quality to the systems of 10 other developed countries: its rank was dead last.
The new study by the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. against seven wealthy European countries and ... |
1a13b0180a9bc11fabfb44bd8211b2ec | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-who-are-the-1-20140207-story.html | Who are the 1 percent? Two new views | Who are the 1 percent? Two new views
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow has leveled a blast at a recent attempt by Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw to explain rising income inequality and the primacy of the 1% in the U.S. as the result of “just deserts” going to the talented people making important econom... |
b2a15586f03db9128e8eda1e341ecb0a | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-wristslapping-20140806-column.html | Here’s how an unhappy judge approves a Wall Street wrist-slapping | Here’s how an unhappy judge approves a Wall Street wrist-slapping
New York federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff has been the strongest voice on the bench for bringing Wall Street wrongdoers to justice.
So it isn’t surprising that when his masters on a federal appeals court ordered him to sign off on an indulgent fraud settlemen... |
21958c6e6a6cb9c498f4f0b9c5bb0efe | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-xpm-2013-dec-04-la-fi-mh-katie-couric-20131204-story.html | Katie Couric puts the anti-vaccination movement into the mainstream | Katie Couric puts the anti-vaccination movement into the mainstream
The anti-vaccination movement has long been a public menace. It’s responsible for the resurgence of numerous serious diseases that were on the decline, including measles, mumps and whooping cough.
Now the movement has been given a big booster shot by K... |
f340ba2e239cb8a8ab93ec6dc95e9e97 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-xpm-2013-dec-10-la-fi-mh-couric-backs-down-20131210-story.html | Katie Couric backs off from her anti-vaccine show--but not enough | Katie Couric backs off from her anti-vaccine show--but not enough
Having taken a fair amount of heat from the science-based community for her recent show promoting scare stories about an important immunological vaccine, Katie Couric has backed off.
In a piece appearing Tuesday in the Huffington Post, the TV host conced... |
c5b22366c1d4d68f358ccc50d4718fe5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-xpm-2013-oct-18-la-fi-mh-kindle-filth-20131018-story.html | Of Kindle porn, Amazon.com, and the online marketplace | Of Kindle porn, Amazon.com, and the online marketplace
While most of us were being squeaky-clean in our online activities, a rather dirty war recently broke out in cyberspace over the selling of dirty e-books on Amazon and elsewhere. The affair raises numerous issues of non-prurient interest.
The controversy first erup... |
6cae6d5928728b86456d485699c80792 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-xpm-2014-feb-17-la-fi-mh-how-pbs-soldr-20140217-story.html | How PBS sold its soul to a billionaire donor | How PBS sold its soul to a billionaire donor
A few days ago the Public Broadcasting Service announced it was returning a $3.5-million grant it had received from a Texas billionaire to fund a series of documentaries about the “pension peril” -- the costs to cities and states of their public employee retirement obligatio... |
cc65d234e09225d64d83de800dfbe1fc | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-xpm-2014-jan-14-la-fi-mh-net-neutrality-20140114-story.html | Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords | Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords
Advocates of a free and open Internet could see this coming, but today’s ruling from a Washington appeals court striking down the FCC’s rules protecting the open net was worse than the most dire forecasts. It was “even more emphatic and disastrous than ... |
894955a171e62c7bd32c73462a777bb3 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-emmys-james-20180917-story.html | HBO ties Netflix for most Emmy wins, 23, on the strength of ‘Game of Thrones’ | HBO ties Netflix for most Emmy wins, 23, on the strength of ‘Game of Thrones’
It was a nail-biter until the last award was won.
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” captured the top honors in drama and comedy at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, while a tie between HBO and Netflix ... |
942d5eb652a17209f32f6ae447425eb7 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-fi-megyn-kelly-nbc-20170103-story.html | Popular anchor Megyn Kelly will leave Fox News after 12 years to join NBC | Popular anchor Megyn Kelly will leave Fox News after 12 years to join NBC
Megyn Kelly, the popular cable news anchor who clashed with president-elect Donald Trump during his campaign, is leaving Fox News after 12 years to join rival NBC.
The surprise appointment was announced Tuesday by NBC News Chairman Andy Lack, who... |
ea4e901b9d0efcafbf25adaddc108c9b | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-st-emmy-nominations-hbo-netflix-20180711-story.html | Netflix nudges past HBO to top Emmy nominations list with 112 | Netflix nudges past HBO to top Emmy nominations list with 112
It looks like all those DVDs and billboards paid off.
After blanketing Los Angeles and other parts of the world with for-your-consideration ads and screeners for its bounty of shows, Netflix on Thursday dethroned HBO, the longtime king of Emmy nominations, b... |
d6ea84f92e49ed292218a037f74b01f8 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-1968-tv-news-20180323-htmlstory.html | War, riots and assassinations: 1968’s TV news paved the way for today’s endless, opinion-heavy coverage | War, riots and assassinations: 1968’s TV news paved the way for today’s endless, opinion-heavy coverage
North Korean nuclear missile tests. Russian interference in elections. A mercurial president who can send the stock market into a tailspin with a provocative tweet. Those are just a fraction of the stories that have ... |
de5500e815b552e03042fc7306921f70 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-20th-century-fox-boom-20170615-story.html | 20th Century Fox builds its comics arsenal with Boom Studios deal | 20th Century Fox builds its comics arsenal with Boom Studios deal
20th Century Fox already has a strong foothold in the comics world with its ever-expanding “X-Men” movie universe, but the studio is building up its arsenal of fictional characters with a deal that could lead to more adaptations of popular comic titles.
... |
a2312491f0c5ab91d123d7d267bcc78b | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-abc-studios-patrick-moran-jonnie-davis-20190710-story.html | Jonnie Davis becomes president of ABC Studios, replacing Disney veteran Patrick Moran | Jonnie Davis becomes president of ABC Studios, replacing Disney veteran Patrick Moran
In another shakeup at ABC, two top executives at the network’s television production unit — Patrick Moran and Howard Davine — are departing the company as the new Fox regime tightens its grip.
Moran was in charge of ABC Studios since ... |
56dafec3ea8e191564f15c2929ab4c96 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-abrams-artists-agency-20180925-story.html | Abrams Artists Agency changes ownership in management buyout | Abrams Artists Agency changes ownership in management buyout
Abrams Artists Agency, the boutique talent agency founded four decades ago by Harry Abrams, is changing hands in a management buyout by the firm’s top executives.
The agency announced Tuesday that it has been purchased by the company’s longtime executives Rob... |
3dc58d4ff5c4b04ab5934fb881a5eca9 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-amazon-cuts-ties-weinstein-co-20171013-story.html | Amazon Studios cuts ties with Weinstein Co. following Harvey Weinstein sex scandal | Amazon Studios cuts ties with Weinstein Co. following Harvey Weinstein sex scandal
Amazon Studios on Friday severed ties with the Weinstein Co. in the wake of the sexual harassment scandal engulfing Harvey Weinstein’s struggling production company.
The move means a high-profile television project from Oscar-nominated d... |
1dfda0196f75a7dc2f3bd06abdb50b50 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-amblin-television-amazing-stories-20181218-story.html | Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners is taking a bigger bet on TV | Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners is taking a bigger bet on TV
After acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa died 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg eulogized him as “the visual Shakespeare of our time.”
So when Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, co-presidents of Spielberg’s television business, got the opportunity to ma... |
9e984c5c96cb8901fe7f147696717fae | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-amc-barnett-20181105-story.html | BBC America chief Sarah Barnett is elevated to president, entertainment networks at AMC | BBC America chief Sarah Barnett is elevated to president, entertainment networks at AMC
AMC Networks, the maker of one of TV’s biggest hits, “The Walking Dead,” announced Monday that it will centralize the management of its cable channels and program production.
Sarah Barnett, who has headed AMC’s BBC America channel s... |
951fd91cb0679447b15cc9f3f2f579b9 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-amc-carmike-20161114-story.html | China-owned AMC seals deal to buy Carmike Cinemas, making it the largest theater chain in U.S. | China-owned AMC seals deal to buy Carmike Cinemas, making it the largest theater chain in U.S.
Carmike Cinemas shareholders on Tuesday approved a plan to sell the company to AMC Entertainment for $1.2 billion, including debt, making the Chinese-owned theater chain the largest in the country.
Leawood, Kan.-based AMC wil... |
dcf4fc2971b04ec70f2110eea90d4212 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-amc-stuntman-walking-dead-20180124-story.html | AMC sued over stuntman death on ‘The Walking Dead’ | AMC sued over stuntman death on ‘The Walking Dead’
The mother of a stuntman who fell to his death last year while working on the hit TV series “The Walking Dead” has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against cable network AMC. The suit alleges that the fall wasn’t properly rehearsed and that the production cut corners in ... |
c75846f4f613c03068cea7d6b034146e | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-apple-ends-itunes-wwdc-20190603-story.html | Apple replaces iTunes on Mac with three separate apps | Apple replaces iTunes on Mac with three separate apps
When the iTunes Music store debuted 16 years ago, digital music meant buying a CD and uploading it to a computer or illegally downloading a song from a file-sharing service. Apple changed all that by charging customers 99 cents for a song they could take with them w... |
e4a6c1468985015f8182815c4f6f1564 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-apple-hollywood-streaming-strategy-20190324-story.html | Apple’s Hollywood moment draws intense interest and skepticism | Apple’s Hollywood moment draws intense interest and skepticism
Hey Siri, call Steven Spielberg.
Since Hollywood caught wind of Apple Inc.’s entertainment ambitions several years ago, filmmakers and studio executives have been wondering exactly how the iPhone maker will delve into the streaming video market — and whethe... |
c81c852e9f6605715ccb30bd6f2d1310 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-att-doj-trial-time-warner-20180314-story.html | AT&T and Justice Department are on a collision course over Time Warner merger | AT&T and Justice Department are on a collision course over Time Warner merger
Two titans — the U.S. Justice Department and telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. — are locked in a high-stakes showdown to decide who controls some of the nation’s most popular television channels.
The Justice Department sued to block AT&T’s p... |
fc72570d5684a3271ef8cc725a9a2294 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-att-owns-time-warner-20180615-story.html | AT&T wraps up Time Warner purchase, ushering in new era for Warner Bros., CNN and HBO | AT&T wraps up Time Warner purchase, ushering in new era for Warner Bros., CNN and HBO
Time Warner Inc. is no more.
Late Thursday, AT&T Inc. announced that it completed its $85-billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., just two days after a federal judge in Washington gave the deal the green light. AT&T wasted little tim... |
5a210f02aa0638f19f672f1d86d2dbe4 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-att-warnermedia-strategy-20180703-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fbusiness+%28L.A.+Times+-+Business%29 | How AT&T could use Time Warner shows and movies to compete with Disney and Netflix | How AT&T could use Time Warner shows and movies to compete with Disney and Netflix
Imagine if, ahead of HBO’s next “Westworld” premiere, AT&T sent a 5-minute video recap to millions of users it knows watch science fiction.
The mobile giant could target young women with the latest trailer of Warner Bros.’s upcoming roma... |
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