Angelenos heads up: on PBS: Inventing LA: The Chandlers & Their Times

[question everything]

Fascinating story about how General Otis started the LA Times and influenced the development of LA with all the corruption and political influnece.

[bridgit]

1. set for tape

:thumbsup:

[itsrobert]

2. Tape?

Didn't know anyone that uses tape anymore.

[bridgit]

3. short for DVR re-cord-ing

[question everything]

4. Oh Yes, I do

This way I can set the start and end instead of relying on the DVR service, or TiVo or whatever.

When we used to watch programs on CBS Sunday evenings, when everything was pushed because of ball games, I knew by how much the start would be delayed.

And, my old tape recorder skips commercials.

[Hannah Bell]

5. And people laugh at "conspiracy theorists".

"He was a member of the San Fernando Syndicate, a group of investors who bought land in the San Fernando Valley based on inside knowledge that the Los Angeles aqueduct would soon irrigate it. Otis used the Times to frighten citizens (with news stories of a false drought) to vote for a 1905 bond issue that funded the aqueduct."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Gray_Otis


Modern history = the history of financial conspiracies.

[villager]

6. "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown"

And it was, only decades earlier.

[bridgit]

7. That's right