Testing the boundaries

Yesterday's wrap around cover for the LA Times certainly came close to the boundaries of what is advertsising.

It featured the face of Johnny Depp in the film Alice in Wonderland superimposed over what looks like the usual front page complete with masthead.

According to the New York Times

The top editor of The Times, Russ Stanton, and several of his deputies vigorously opposed the ad before it was published, but they were overruled by the paper’s business executives, according to people with direct knowledge of the dispute, who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Pulitzer Prize winner dies

William Tuohy,a foreign correspondent who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War for The Los Angeles Times, has died.

According to the obituary in his paper

When he was awarded his Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War, Pulitzer judges noted that "few correspondents have seen and written more about the war in Vietnam than William Tuohy."

He was at the LA Times for 29 years ,serving as bureau chief in Saigon, Beirut, Rome, Bonn and London.During that time he covered wars and conflicts in Southeast Asia but the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Iran and the Falkland Islands,