Am I too hot for the Times?

Here's what happens if you try to access palewire.com using the Los Angeles Times internal web connection.

I have no idea what the filter is up to, but a search for the offending term yields only a reference to a certain punk rock band and a brief whine about becoming a professional geek, neither of which seem all that sexy.

This is a post Ben Welsh made on January 5, 2008

It is filed with other posts about celebrations and questions.

Topics include censorship, humor, los angeles times, music, my life, tribune company and web.

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brian hamman on 2008.01.06

Wow. even more disturbing is the fact that the Times is blocking sites to begin with. What happens when a reporter wants to write a story about sex, or say some sort of medical procedure? Are they, too, blocked? Or are you maybe not on the special "newsroom" intranet?

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palewire on 2008.01.06

I suspect your last suggestion about newsroom v. everybody else to be the case from what I've been told informally, but I'd need more confirmation. I just don't know, but I'll keep asking around and report back.

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zahler on 2008.01.06

You're also too steamy for the Spokesman-Review's Web browsers. Brian's comment makes me want to ask Bill Morlin how he pulled off the Jim West story...

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palewire on 2008.01.06

Amazing. Can you get me a screenshot of that? Windows instructions. Mac OSX instructions.

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palewire on 2008.01.22

Here is the complete companywide email I received this morning from our new owner Sam Zell. Subject: Censorship, the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate Everyone, I learned on the first leg of our tour of Tribuneâ€™s business units that some of them were filtering Internet content. I do not see how a member of the Fourth Estate, dedicated to protecting the First Amendment, can censor what its own employees and partners can see. I have instructed that all content filters be removed. You are now exposed to the dangers of You Tube and Facebook. Please use your best judgment. Letâ€™s focus on what is important, and go for greatness. Sam

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palewire / i am not too hot. on 2008.01.27

[...] it turns out, I am not too hot for the Los Angeles Times (see previous post). Or at least not anymore. The following company wide email from Sam Zell, our new owner, arrived [...]

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