Los Angeles Times
How USC students turned Zoom into a video game platform for coronavirus life (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 14:22Coronavirus upended local TV news overnight. It may never be the same again (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 07:50David Lazarus: You can thank the coronavirus for plunge in robocalls (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 11:22After six years, the Dodgers’ channel will be widely available in LA. What happened? (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 06:43Comcast pledges $500 million to workers; executives forgo salaries (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 13:25Google, Facebook offer paid leave to parents amid coronavirus school closures (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 20:13In the Quarantine Age, e-sports seize center stage (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 03/30/2020 - 06:56Coronavirus will hurt us all. But it will be worst for those who have the least
The rift between the experience of Americans able to work from home and those in the service sector, now out of work, underscores how dramatically the crisis is separating the haves in the U.S. economy from those who don’t have much. When a crisis strikes, it’s the latter who bear the brunt of the damage. That’s going to play out this time with particular ferocity in the United States for several reasons. One is that since the last recession we’ve become increasingly dependent on low-income jobs with poor benefits and fragile guarantees of continued employment.