Yesterday's
Los Angeles Times had a hole where its "Big Picture" column, written by
Patrick Goldstein, usually was; a note on the front page of the paper's Calendar section said that the reason was Goldstein being "on assignment," but according to
LA Observed, the column that was set to run yesterday was actually spiked. Why? For laying out a pretty rational strategy where the
Times could bolster its circulation and street cred by engaging in "covermount" promotions similar to the one Prince did with the
Daily Mail in the UK. Luckily, LA Observed snagged the column in full, so we can see just how crazy Goldstein's suggestions are:
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The Los Angeles Times has retracted its controversial March 17 story "An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War," which claimed that Sean "Diddy" Combs was aware that Shakur would be attacked in late November 1994, and that the attack was orchestrated by associates of the Bad Boy CEO. The paper acknowledged that it had been hoaxed by its "confidential sources" immediately following a March 27 debunking of the story on The Smoking Gun, but only today did it announce a full retraction of the original article, written by longtime Diddy conspiracy theorist Chuck Phillips.
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A statement from Patrick Goldstein, who wrote a column suggesting that the LA Times distribute music with the paper a la Prince and the Daily Mail, only to see it 
