Analyst David Joyce of Miller Tabak & Co. said the acquisition will help Disney appeal to young men who have flocked to theaters to see Marvel’s superhero fare in recent years. That contrasts with Disney’s recent successes among young women with such fare as “Hannah Montana” and the Jonas Brothers.

“It helps Disney add exposure to a young male demographic it had sort of lost some balance with,” Joyce said, noting the $4 billion offer was at “full price.”

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As you may know, 89.3 KPCC’s transmitter on Mount Wilson is under threat by the Station Fire. We have several backup plans in the works, so if the transmitter goes down, we are prepared to be back on the air as quickly as possible. In the meantime, there are plenty of additional ways for you to stay up to date on the fire’s course and impact on our communities:

Listen to KPCC’s online stream, easily accessible from the home page at kpcc.org.

Read the latest news updates, field reports and blog posts at kpcc.org.

Join our Facebook page and follow KPCC on Twitter.

Our stations in the Inland Empire (89.1 KUOR) and Coachella Valley (90.3 KPCV) will not be affected by an outage at Mount Wilson.

We’ll bring you extended wildfire coverage throughout the day today, including a special extended edition of AirTalk from 9am to noon. KPCC reporters are on the scene in La Crescenta and at the command center near Hansen Dam, as well as at the Oak Glen Fire near Yucaipa. We’ll be hearing from them this morning.

KPCC has done a great job covering the fire. The local television stations yesterday were mute. Er – moot. Pick one. Ironically if the television transmitters do go, the coverage of the disaster will remain the same.

We watched CNN yesterday to get information about the fires. Of course, Fredricka Whitfield pronounced La Canada, like the country to the north of the US. Ahem.

TVB has more on the transmitters here.

Photo credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

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His site is a grammar geek’s delight. Topics range from improperly capitalizing nouns to prepositions to punctuation. You know, but interesting.

Watch out Strunk and White!

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The U.S. military is canceling its contract with a controversial private firm that was producing background profiles of journalists seeking to cover the war that graded their past work as “positive,” “negative” or “neutral,” Stars and Stripes has learned.

“The Bagram Regional Contracting Center intends to execute a termination of the Media Analyst contract,” belonging to The Rendon Group, said Col. Wayne Shanks, chief of public affairs for International Security Assistance Forces-Afghanistan.

But Jason Chupick from our sister blog, PRNewser points out:

Lt. Cmdr. Christine Sidenstricker, military spokesperson for U.S. forces in Afghanistan said the practice of denying reporters embed positions is “flat out incorrect,” on NPR’s On the Media today.

That interview is here:

Previously on FBLA:

YouTube to the rescue!

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The two firefighters were killed when they drove off the side of a treacherous road in the Mt. Gleason area, south of Acton, around 2:30 p.m., said Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief Mike Bryant. They were later identified as Arnaldo Quinones, 35, of Palmdale and Tedmund Hall, 47, of San Bernardino County.

“This accident is tragic,” Bryant said, choking up as he spoke Sunday evening. “This is a very difficult time for L.A. County Fire Department and the men and women that serve day in, day out.”

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Freedom was founded in the 1930s by R. C. Hoiles, a former printer’s apprentice who used his publications in part to spread his libertarian views. The Orange County Register continues the libertarian approach but, like other newspapers across the country, has had to confront the question of its survival.

“We are continuing to work with our lenders to address our balance sheet,” said a Freedom spokesman.

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DJ AM was found dead today in an apartment on Lafayette Street in Manhattan. He was 36.

Sources said drug paraphernalia was found in the apartment and cops are looking into whether it was an overdose.

DJ AM was a celebrity deejay best known for being engaged to Nicole Richie. He had also been romantically linked to actress Mandy Moore and former Miss USA Tara Conner

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The drugs Propofol and Lorazepam were found to be the primary drugs responsible for Mr. Jackson’s death. Other drugs detected were: Midazolam, Diazepam, Lidocaine and Ephedrine.

The final coroner’s report, including the complete toxicology report will remain on security hold at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney. In accordance with this request, the Department of Coroner will not comment on its completed investigation.

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Michael Jackson Died Of Propofol Overdose

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Carson is now the Chief Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles.

Which is so notable, even Ben Smith at POLITICO wrote about it.

Patrick Range McDonald at LA Weekly sums it up best:

Whatever may have happened, Carson is here. It should be an interesting four years, if the young buck, and Villaraigosa, actually stay that long.

“It seems that Antonio is setting himself up for a run for something else,” the Democratic insider tells the Weekly. “Maybe a run for Senate. Jay has those national connections.”

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PJ Tobia, over at True/Slant obtained his and posted it. He writes:

Most troubling by far is that when S&S asked the military about Rendon, they denied the existence of these reports. I’m holding one of these reports in my hand right now, trust me, it exists. I’ve also met people who work for The Rendon Group in Kabul. In conversations, they deny that there is any nefarious objective to what they do. “We just help the military figure out what embed is right for a particular reporter,” one Rendon employee told me over drinks. “If a reporter is classified as “negative” they are less likely to go where the action is and more likely to be covering a platoon that guards sandbags in Herat.”

Read the whole post and the report on him here.

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