-30- to Morning Briefing

[MileHigh]

After decades in the L.A. Times, L.A. Observed notes in its review of the Times' redesign that hit today that Morning Briefing has been dropped in favor of a digest of blog items. Hopefully, the Saturday letters will remain.

[Mizzougrad96]

I loved Morning Briefing.

[Matt1735]

Morning Briefing was a must read. Some of the best nuggets and notes would appear in that column.

[WriteThinking]

You know, I really wish they'd stop screwing with the editorial content and design -- other than to make it less/worse than it was -- and start dealing with the real problem, which is ad and product sales/revenue generation...

And I wish we'd start hearing about that all the time.

[Jeremy Goodwin]

Great column. I liked how there were a couple of different people did it. It was always good for a laugh or a creep out. Sometimes both.

Fists of . . .

Revealing far more than he needed to, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko told the German tabloid Bild that he has a method of keeping his fists from swelling after fights: He wraps them in the urine-soaked diapers of his 3-year-old son, Max.

"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," Klitschko said, adding that his grandmother gave him the idea.

Wonder what weight she fought at.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/custom/morningbriefing/

[trifectarich]

I loved Morning Briefing.

Always must-read.

A bad decision.

[SF_Express]

For the people who did it right, it took a lot more work and creativity than it might have seemed to some. It was basically a blog, but in print, before there were such things.

[Joe Williams]

Have to admit, I used to feel a little proud when I'd see something I'd written excerpted in the Morning Briefing, chosen by Mal Florence or Shav Glick or whomever as being worthy of that pithy roundup in a once-great newspaper.

First that "great" tag changed. Now the Briefing is history. -30- indeed.

[Birdscribe]

This shouldn't be surprising, considering most of the folks who wrote this no longer work at what used to be a world-class sports section.

Lisa Dillman does MB duty, but most of the rest who did it regularly: Peter Yoon, Larry Stewart, etc. are no longer employed there.

As every other decision from the Hounds of Zell goes, this one blows.