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[email fragment] Are you getting the LA Times at home there? Last month I wrote a little applescript to download front page PDFs from a handful of newspapers via newseum.org (newseum.org!!). Of the batch I get the LA Times has become the hands-down favorite. Whoever their weekday P.1 and photo editors are, I'm a fan. The photos especially, which are almost always great compositions. I'm also developing this theory that they're purposely de-saturated, both to bring them in line with the elegantly utilitarian layouts, and with the actual light and landscape of the region. Even when they run the same AP photo as the Boston Globe, the LA version winds up looking like it was taken with a zoom from the grounds of the Getty museum.