* Orange County Register owner Aaron Kushner is launching the Los Angeles Register, put out by the OCR staff. He says “it will be a daily newspaper of not quite the heft of the Orange County Register,” but larger than the Los Angeles Times. (ocregister.com)
* Yum, bacon-wrapped scallops! (Never mind; that’s Capt. Bacon being disciplined.) (heraldnews.com) || Oops! It was “wrapped” in the print edition. (heraldnews.com) | Update: Esquire has the headline backstory. (esquire.com)
* The managing editor of TheTruthAboutGuns.com doesn’t discuss his pro-gun views with his family. “Better to leave an uncomfortable topic alone than get into the whole thing,” he says. (stltoday.com)
* Times-Picayune editor’s note says a story published Thursday “begins with a structure and includes some phrases that mirror a story [previously] published …the usage in this case did not meet our standards.” (nola.com/end of story)
* Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Matt Winkler rejects a proposal to lift the ban on writing about Mike Bloomberg. B(fortune.cnn.com)
* New York magazine editor Adam Moss tells journalism grads: “Eleven days ago, my employer announced that after 45 years of publishing a weekly magazine, New York was going to convert to a biweekly. This news found itself on the front page of the New York Times. Does the front page of the New York Times even matter anymore? I was shocked by how many people in this business didn’t even see it.” (capitalnewyork.com)
* Media Matters says its war on Fox News is over and “to a large extent, we won.” (huffingtonpost.com)
* A Fargo TV reporter was able to walk around three elementary schools without being stopped and now police are investigating her. (inforum.com) | The school district is making changes. (valleynewslive.com)
* Gawker: “Twitter quickly reverses a very stupid policy change.” (gawker.com)
* Yes, you can browse the web with a 27-year-old Apple computer. “Sure, it was slow as hell, but it worked! Data loaded, pages rendered, and links were clickable.” (keacher.com)
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