the l.a. times festival books did. i mean, that first book fair, i was i was at the first book festival at ucla and i was there as a sales rep for putnam. and i remember it very well. and it was you know, again, it was it was such a surprise and a delight to see how many people came out and how hungry the community of los angeles was for an event like that. and and we have grown, you know, over the years to to what we are today. this this huge event that takes up most of the usc campus and brings in hundreds of thousands of people. but it took us took us a while to get to this point. so i would say the two been patient and to, you know, just to to to work hard and and mine all those all those contacts in in in publishing to to put on a great event. does it cost money for people to attend? it is it is free to to attend in all the outdoor events are free. we have six outdoor stages and all the booths and all the things that you can do outdoors are free. the indoor events require a reservation and there's just a small fee

our books editor and other folks on the l.a.es editorial team that work in the sort of books and entertainment space, start having regular meetings, looking at submissions, and start sort of inviting people and formulating panels. so we, we put the call out widely and then start sort of building, building from there. how many authors are you expecting this year? over 550. so it's it's getting out there. we're almost almost done. but, yeah, it's i think when we're when all is said and done, i think we're going to be at over 550 authors. well, and benny, anybody who's organized an event knows that, sure. you can have the the people there, but there are so much work being done under the surface tents, security at cetera, etc.. correct. oh, absolutely. we have a yes, we have a team of people that build the whole thing out at usc, our partners at usc, we have lots of people on campus who we work with, all the different departments, as you said, from security and transportation and all the things that go into it to make sure that that

additional i had a column, a regular column in the l.a. times? in the 80's, the l.a. times had column right and column left. they wanted both voices heard on opinion pages. no longer. same with the new york times. and i wrote for them. did you know i dug up a piece written in the 1980's extolling what a wonderful talk show host i was in the l.a. times? it is such a dramatic takeover of liberalism by the left and the liberal just lay down and allow the left to do this. it is a tragedy. host: dan just mentioned that one of the author discussions we just heard was about book bands. and i wanted to ask you about this, this was a recent headline in the hill newspaper. nearly 1500 book bans implemented in the first half of the school year. should books be allowed to be banned from school libraries? >> books have always been banned in school libraries. it is such an odd question. of course they have. who wants unfettered access to books for eight-year-olds? it's such an odd accusation. it depends on what you're banning. if you are banning things that are appropriate for that

we know the "l.a. times" has had tough times lately. all the newspapers in southern california have. in the media in general, what's your take on what this means? >> well, i'll tell you right now, tammy, the idea of the media trying to be an impartial bystander watching government is over. there's a marriage between the democratic party and 95% of the media. they're married together. they're working together to conceal the truth. charlie's right. they're lying, in my opinion. objectivity, out the window. if you want facts, you watch it here on fox news. as far as objectivity, they're covering for joe biden. they're covering for kamala harris. everything they do, they have an excuse. they think we're stupid. he they're lying to us and think we'll believe it. i got news for you, the echo chamber of these individuals who honestly believe this, no. most people don't get the news. they get the lies from the left wing media. that's the big problem right now. that's scary as we go into 2024. >> yeah. clearly, joe, your work has been to look an

back in the day, the l.a. times, the l.a. news, three or four tv stations. and you basically have cable everywhere. everyone is walking around with two smartphones. it's coming from everywhere. and it's really very different, if you will. frustration for police, trying to get their message out that, even with the aims of reducing crime, the -- if it bleeds, it leaks. here we are tonight, watching the news usually. tonight the 6:00 news, you have the first six stories on the 6:00 news, the local news broadcast. three in the subway, three in the streets. that then goes out on social media and it's repeated over and over again. we live in a very different time. trying to deal with a fear has become a complex challenge for america's police chiefs. >> chief more, a fair number of years, l.a. has been enjoying a crime rate that's as low as it's been since the 60s. now we see this increase. can you speak to the idea of the perception and how it affects the demands that are put on you versus the actual crime? because the title of this program is myth versus reality.

the l.a. times denied its reporterswhite submitted the question in advance. and white house press secretary karine jean-pierre also triedth to cold water on the story. tc >> watch this. the l.a. times that their reporter did not commit any questions in advance of yesterday's press conference said people who saw that hockey card. ca n you explain how that endednees up there and why the presidentom needed something like that? adv >> look, we we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something that we do. our job is to get a sens whate of y'a what you all want to ask.nse of and that is ou tr job here to gy a sense of what's the news of the day, the topics you all are interested for, for to ask of g. him. >> well, there you go. >> here with reaction becausee u they do have opinions. fox newsrt contributors charlie hurt, leo terrell and joe concha. gentlemen, thank you . i charlie, let me start with you.l i found that l.a. times denial very interesting. they say we don't do this righ

kelly, thank you. >> gillian: is l.a.earing up to empty out some jails, empty jails, excuse me, of convicted criminals. a plan to decarcerate jails. plus this. >> i feel the promises he made he has not fulfilled on, and just like i said, the country is so divided. >> i think we are being mismanaged. to a severe degree. >> john: some d.c. residents up happy with president biden's leadership with no word on whether he is officially running for re-election. some in his party, like senator joe manchin are leaving the door open to challenge him if he does. he has been critical of some of biden's policies. josh weighs in on what it could all mean for 2024. my name is brian delallo. i teach ap and honors economics in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. financial well-being to me is knowing that i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say, that guy made this place a special place to come to school and gave as much as he could to help the community. out here, you're more than just a landowner. yo

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a 2019 l.a. allegations of sexual misconduct against a probation officer and have not taken actions on those comments. tonight the department of probation declclined to cocomment on pending g litigationon but eddie chisholm, first vice president of the officers union, denies claims of abuse. is there sexual abuse inside the l.a. county juvenile detention center? >> no. >> no? >> i know that the department does its due diligence. they have a unit. any allegations of misconduct that's made by a client is thoroughly investigated. >> reporter: in a statement the l.a. county board of supervisors, which oversees probation, said, we have zero tolerance for violence of any kind including sexual assaults adding we are holding the probation department and ourselves accountable for improving conditions. >> anybody who's been abused, don't be afraid to speak up about it, because sooner or later somebody is going to listen. somebody is going to hear us. we're going to get what we deserve. >> reporter: with at

now it's a good bet the l.a. times knew about it but the times doesn't have a history of upseting the apple cart but something happened. word got out, and there was big time backlash. it appears that people in los angeles county are tired of everything the sidewalks controlled by the homeless and the streets controlled by the criminals. tired of everything roving gangs walk into their favorite stores and walk out with their favorite items, tired of not being able to ride public transportation because bus fare is a wall element and a watch. the long california drought is over and maybe they weren't talking about water. ktth seattle talk show host jason. this again william had this earlier the crimes that would not require jail time, vehicular man lawyer, sexual battery, assault with deadly weapon, sex with a minor, styled stealing and possession of child pornography. >> i would say it's believable because we have seen this movement over the last two and a half years there. are states and counties that are already

nidorf juvenile hall in l.a.ounty now 26 he tells nbc news the sexual abuse started within days of entering the system. >> i just went back to my room, and i cried, and i was just like, is this the stuff that i'm going to go through? >> reporter: he's 1 of more than 400 former juvenile detainees now suing the county of los angeles alleging sexual and physical abuse at the hands of probation staff. the allegations spanning 50 years. >> i had to hold this in for so long, so long i have nightmares about these incidents. i wake up in cold sweats. >> reporter: he says he was groomed and sexually assaulted by the same supervisor during a series of detentions until he aged out of the system so when you went back to that facility, this happened again >> and again and again. >> reporter: he says the abuse included four instances of rape and that he tried to file a grievance, but that same male supervisor told him, no one would ever find out. he told you that >> out of his mouth, your grievances will never make it to the f

the "l.a.and had the exact question she was going to ask. >> so it had the reporter q and a at the top you can see. date. someone wrote in question number one it. has her name with her pronunciation. the "l.a. times" and then lists her question, a summary of her yet-to-be-asked question. resureing semiconductor. sure enough the first person called on and she went on to ask a question about semiconductor manufacturing. >> steve: let's listen back and forth and keep in mind joe biden knows exactly what she is going to ask. >> now we are going to take some questions. first question is courtney "l.a. times." >> thank you, mr. president. your top economic property has been to build up u.s. desk manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south korean companies that rely heavily on bay jake, are you damaging a key ally in the competition with china to help your desk politics ahead of the election? >> brian: wow, that means they have

the "l.a.imes" would ask, quote, how are you squaring your desk priorities liar reshoring semiconductors manufacturing with alliance based foreign policy? picture right there of the reporter. this very same "l.a. times" reporter just happened to ask a eerily similar question. >> now we're going to take some questions. first question is from courtney of the "los angeles times." >> thank you, mr. president. your top economic priority has been to build up u.s. domestic manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south korean companies that rely heavily on beijing. are you damaging a key ally in the competition with china to help your domestic politics ahead of the election? >> peter: they were both reading the same white house released question off the paper. now are we just imagining things or did the "l.a. times" give the president of the united states a question ahead of time? can't be? that's not just something a journalist w

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when i was at the l.a. times in the eighties and i first wrote about the downtown women's center, had opened on skid row. we had 400 women living on the streets in los angeles county. now it's up to 15,000. and these are not women who are who have anywhere to go at night. they are on the streets. and there's lots of programs that we're trying to make work and a lot of good people trying to do it. but i've always been shocked. and how much people really find the poor distasteful that mean i'm not talking about people living under the overpasses. i'm talking about just poor people. and i asked you to comment. this are not attractive. they just aren't they don't have a good haircut. i'm only going to talk about women. they don't have a good haircut. they have the right clothes. they're not clean. they're talking god through their toaster ovens. i mean, they're really quite mess. and so there's some unpleasant but seemingly natural reaction that we want to distance herself from the poor or we want to make them

. >> thank you and at the l.a. times book award last night, james elroy was there and he won an award and he spoke for about 10 minutes. we take it for book tv and you will be able to see that in the near future. text message ron is reading we were the mulvaney's by joyce carol oates. it is featured in oprah's book club. another caller bo in gainesville, georgia. >> i just finished a book called shadow country. it's a calculation as i understand it of three books that he did. regarding it's a little bit of a thriller. as you may now, he had a big interest in the ecology and so forth. it's also an interesting harry about the development and ruination of florida by that development and so forth. >> thank you for calling in. gail, las vegas. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. recently, i read the aftermath. i was interested in him because i am a baby boomer. that was his focus although it tended to lean more toward a lot of statistics talking about all the different recent generations although i did appreciate what he

l.a.county sheriff's deputy killed a transient man outside a mall. security there called police when the man wouldn't leave. here's a look at that confrontation. >> yeah, i'm not going move at all. i will actually kibble everybody who comes here. >> you better step back. >> i'm going to [bleep]. >> you better step back. >> i said get the [bleep] out of here now. >> step back. step back! get up! stop! i'm going to shoot you. >> shoot! >> the california doj is still investigating the shooting. when a man in connecticut tried to stop a suspect from stealing his car he succeded at first in the would-be thief's buddies showed up one after the other. and ganged up on the victim punching and kicking him until someone else shouted that they would call the police. gang of four fled the scene n. maryland, three suspects opened fire on a nightclub, killing a security guard at the club and wounding two other people inside. the shooter's car was found but police are looking for suspects nfl new york th

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the day he died i was in l.a. and i said to my wife, i did not really feel right sitting around at home like that was a normal day and i felt an overwhelming urge to spend the day fishing because my dad and i fished a lot and he taught me how to fish. i threw my gear in the trunk and i drove to the kern river and along the way i had the radio going but i was not really paying attention to it until this spring sting song came on called galveston bay. i am not a big springsteen fan. i should not admit this. but he started singing a song about a young vietnamese refugee that ends up in texas trained to rebuild his life as a fisherman and all of a sudden he has klansmen hunting him down. the whole day on the river i was mourning my dad. but this song kept popping into my head. it was such a bizarre premise. it seemed very overengineered. i do not think it was based on anything. then weeks later when i finally sat down and googled it and saw that not only had it happened, it happened at a moment of -- i mean, it was a

phoenix hel off and eliminated l.a., 136-130.won the series 4- and they have drawn denver in the nuggets' next round. >>> back to the warriors. vegas has them as a slight road favorite, but i got a hunch. th winner of tomorrow's game wins the series. >> vern, thank you so much. >>> coming up, he >>> a tv station in l.a. didn't have to do much more than look outside the building to find some news. a man climbed on top of ktla's iconic tower in hollywood and he seemed to have something to say. the guy had a sign that said free billie eilish. he was also playing guitar, so he is ambidextrous. it is unclear why the sign read free billie eilish. free her from what? she is doing fine. if you want to see for yourself she is actually on the late lat show tonight with james corden here on cbs. as for her fan, he came down after three hours fro the tower. he will probably be charged with trespassing. oh boy. >>> stern grove is back at summer in the city. the weekly concert series runs from june 18th to august 20th, kicking things off for a

the "l.a. times," the card also detailed the exact question she wanted to ask. it was about semiconductor manufacturing right on cue, biden called on the "l.a. times" reporter for the first question. guess what she asked about? semiconductor manufacturing. the "l.a. times" and the biden white house are denying that there was any collusion at all whatsoever. take a look. >> the "l.a. times" submitted the report advance, people who saw that card, can you explain how that ended up there and why the president needed that? >> look, we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something we do. our job is to get a sense of what you all want to ask him. that's our job here. the news of the day, the topics you all are interested to ask of him. >> sean: why live? there is photographic evidence that biden got the question in advance as senator marco rubio tweeted. biden has media in his pocket and it's really in his pocket -- by the way, we knew this for years but didn't we always know that th