L.A. TIMES TEEVEE LISTINGS COPY EDITOR TO BE ‘WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD’ EVERY NIGHT FOR THE NEXT YEAR: A correction from the print edition of today’s Los Angeles Times: “FOR THE RECORD: TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s ‘Jackass’ show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s ‘Countdown With Keith Olbermann’ should have been listed.” THIS ES OUTRAGE! [LA Times]

The mean cads at the Los Angeles Times recently discovered a crazy person’s letter to the editor in some tiny, rural Utah newspaper and — due to the meanness — decided to travel all the way out to his lair so as to exploit the craziness for a big city feature. Some people in this world, right? And as a result, now we have to write about this poor old man and his hilarious theories about nuclear war, Obama, and the Mormons. Everyone is awful. Let’s get to know the one good man in this world, Leeland Freeborn, a.k.a. the “Parowan Prophet.” MORE »

ALL NEWSPAPERS FAILING: Tribune Co. went ahead and declared bankruptcy, which is surely good news for the battered half-dead Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The New York Times is scheduled to go bust later this week, probably. The prognosis for print newspapers has been pretty grim since the 1980s, but the specific financial collapse of Tribune Co. and the NYT is, like everything, the fault of the real-estate bubble and credit swaps and whatever. [AP/WSJ/Gawker]

Our Wonkette operative in Los Angeles writes: “Front page, scroll down to the quote area right above the video player, http://www.latimes.com.” Ha, dumb! [Opinion LA]

The Los Angeles Times endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination today, as well as John “The Liberal Who Proudly Wants To Occupy Iraq Permanently” McCain for the Republicans. Barack, the editorial board notes, is “a man of African descent, born in the nation’s youngest state, with a childhood spent partly in Asia, among Muslims.” Indeed, his time “among Muslims” is precisely why he’s a fundamentalist Islamic Muslim terrorist today. MORE »

CNN will partner with the Los Angeles Times and Politico to put on the last two debates of the primary season — Republicans on Jan. 30 and Demrats on Jan. 31 in LA, right before Super Tubersday. So if giving CNN yet another chance to screw up major debates is the first mistake, then allowing Wolf Blitzer to moderate one of them (Anderson Cooper the other, meh) is the second, third and fourth mistakes. It’s also interesting that CNN would partner with the LA Times, which called them the “Corrupt News Network” over the weekend. MORE »

The “scandal” at the Los Angeles Times op-ed department about celebrity guest editors or whatever was only of interest to the 97,839 current and former reporters from the little-known California newspaper — until shamed Pentagon criminal Donald Rumsfeld was brought into the mix this weekend.

Learn about the most boring whiny-assed people in the world (journalists) and their banal problems, after the jump.

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* Condoleezza Rice “counselor” Philip Zelikow resigns, claims loyalty will keep him from writing a tell-all. [WP, NYT]
* Government contracts to receive closer scrutiny by Democratic congress — “tranny hookers” still allowable, as long as their fees are added to the catering line on expense reports. [WP]
* They’re still counting votes in Ohio’s 15th District. [AP, NYT]
* Kofi Annan says of civil war in Iraq, “We are almost there.” An Iraqi leader says, “It’s worse than a civil war.” The Saudi royal family says, “Jump.” Dick Cheney says, “How high?” [WP]
* The Los Angeles Times has been saying it was a civil war since October. [LAT]
* A “senior intelligence official” says al-Sadr’s Iraqi Shiite Militia receives training from Hezbollah. [NYT]
* Justice Department opens “a full review” of Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. [NYT]
* New House Democrat Chris Carney knows something about Iraq, nothing about choking mistresses. [NYT]
* Christian Coalition parts ways with pastor who wants to help poor, save planet. [NYT]

From the suddenly entertaining yet utterly unknown “Opinion L.A.” blog — a Top Secret site apparently run by the Los Angeles Times — comes a “bloggers are fools” story so perfect that all bloggers should be forced to read it aloud every morning. The short version goes like this: MORE »

While the glory days of drunken stranglin’ page-humping Congressional leadership may be gone for the moment, rest assured that the Democrats still have sleazebags. MORE »

Here’s one more reason why the nation’s (almost) biggest metropolitan area has the nation’s No. 4 newspaper — a newspaper losing circulation so rapidly that experts predict it will completely disappear by 2008:

In the sanctuary of his Capitol office with an audio recorder rolling, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger describes Republican legislators as the “wild bunch” and, referring to a Latina lawmaker, casually says that “black blood” mixed with “Latino blood” equals “hot” — a fiery personality. The governor is heard on a six-minute recording, obtained by The Times, of a meeting with some members of his inner circle last spring.

More “scandal,” after the jump.

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