7th
August
2004
The Longer View
“Sign of the Times: Making the Los Angeles Times’ Front Page | In an election year, it is the front pages of the nation’s major papers that set the tone for how political stories are covered. The Los Angeles Times, with a staff of about 45 in its Washington bureau (roughly equivalent to that of the New York Times), is a major player in the election by any reckoning ó and the decisions it makes about how to place stories on its front pages help determine how the public thinks about politics.”