I'll expand on that to say that I thought the Her-Ex was one of the great
papers of all time. It combined great columnists and enlightening reporting
on local issues with a fantastic sports department and some of the best
arts critics I've ever read (Jack Viertel is still the gold standard for
The Herald-Examiner wasn't a bad paper. It was an afternoon paper owned by
Hearst. It didn't have the expansive coverage of The Los Angeles Times,
whose Sunday edition seemed as thick as a phone book each week, but
benefited greatly by comparison with Daily News, owned by Jack Kent Cooke
and then b
Fun factoid #2,973: The Her-Ex building was also the location of the
Associated Press' Los Angeles bureau and took up most (if not all) of one
floor, as it also handled the west coast print and broadcast wire feeds.
If memory serves, the AP remained there for several years after the paper
shut
