Patt Morrison Struts Her Stuff With "Don't Stop The Presses!"

To commemorate the 7th Anniversary of the West Hollywood Public Library, "WEHO READS" made a nod to the marble lions of "Patience & Fortitude" that stand guard at the foot of NYC's Main Public Library on Fifth Avenue, with flesh and blood defenders of freedom of speech and the fourth estate. Larry Mantle, the host of KPPC's "Air Talk," L.A.'s longest running talk program, interviewed Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Patt Morrison about her just released book, "Don't Stop The Presses: Truth, Justice and the American Newspaper."

Mantle managed to give Morrison plenty of room to allow her to be the diva that has made her so beloved by readers throughout Southern CA and elsewhere, and they both proved they are not that type of know-it-all, impervious to criticism nor improvement, as one might have concluded with their confusion as to why the New York Times eliminates bylines on its digital stories, about which I would venture to guess that updates on a 24/7 basis require revisions at the hands of more than the original reporter, and by Morrison's decision to feature a slide of the first bikini, which may or may not have been her pushback to a complaint made in Los Angeles Review of Books, "she leaves out arts and entertainment reporting and criticism — an odd omission for a Los Angeles–based writer." It easily could be my mistake, that this fashion plate of a reporter herself, and the reviewer, categorize this fashionista first as nothing else but news of the first order.

Next up for "WEHO READS":

WeHo Reads: Eloise Klein Healy and West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim Dower

Friday, October 5, 2018, 7 pm
City Council Chambers at the West Hollywood Library
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Free Admission, RSVP at anotherphase.eventbrite.com Parking is free with validation at the event.