Author Compiles Lively L.A. Times History Lesson
Media cognoscenti are going to love the chapter titled "The General."
Long before Eli Broad, Rupert Murdoch and people willing to pay $140 million for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, there was Harrison Gray Otis. As Marc Weingarten reminds in his new book Thirsty, Otis solidified his status as a media baron in relatively economical fashion:
With the small profit of one thousand dollars that he earned from the sale of the Santa Barbara Press, Otis bought a 25 percent stake in the Los Angeles Daily Times…
When Otis bought his first quarter share of the Los Angeles Times, he had three other partners: Jesse Yarnell, Thomas J.
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