First, subscriptions down… then the Hiltzik Affair… now this.
UPDATE: Apparently, spelling is also causing a problem. From reader Joel Engel…
FOR THE RECORD
April 25, 2006
Ernest Hemingway: The author’s last name was misspelled as Hemmingway in a Sunday Calendar article about Andy Garcia.








…a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb… Sheriff’s officials said they rendered the news rack in this suburb 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles “safe” after being called to the scene Friday by a concerned individual who thought he’d seen a bomb.
Safe, heh. They should do this sort of thing more often.
Probably the same marketing genius that told the Hilton is was okay to close Fran O’Brien’s.