Priscilla Presley L.A. people talk with Host Pat Pattison

Hi it's Pat Patterson with the Best Los Angeles Award and I'm here at the Napa Valley Grill with the City Talk event and we're here with Norman Perlstein, the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Should be a fascinating evening, going to talk to a lot of people. Hi it's Pat Patterson with the Best of Los Angeles and I'm here with Priscilla Presley at the City Talk event and Priscilla, I just love the fact that this is an old-fashioned salon. Do you? I do, I agree. That's very well put. It is an old-fashioned salon. You get to meet, greet people, ask questions, talk about what's going on in the city and who's who and blow in like I just did with the wind. I grabbed you and said come talk to me. Yes. And we're going to hear from Norman Perlstein. Yes, yes. Los Angeles Times. Yes, that should be very, very interesting. That's what's so great about this is you get to talk after they, after the guests talk, we get to ask all kind of questions we've been wondering about forever, right? Yeah, and it's not a digital thing and it's local. Yes, it's local. It is local and it's good for us and I think there should be more of these because you really get to learn a lot. I mean, you're really educated and what's what, you know, who's who, what's going on and I love the intimacy of it. You know, it's a small gathering and we get to talk about everything and meet new people. Yeah, yeah, it's an incredible mixture. I get to meet you. There we go. It's so great to be here. So, and, and you are a big fan of LA. I mean, you, you have stayed loyal to our city and, and what is, what is your favorite part about Los Angeles? Oh my gosh, it's so diverse. I mean, I love everything about it. You can go, you can get, I mean, any kind of food you want and especially now, the cuisine is outstanding. I mean, as you know, we're here at the Napa Valley, can I say where we are? And here in Westwood and I just love you have so many choices. I, I love you. There's so many places to go and so many cities close to us. I mean, I'm in Santa Barbara, I'm in San Diego, I'm in San Francisco. I mean, really, LA is just so diverse in so many ways. The people, great friends, great places to go. I can't say enough about it. And the weather is good except now. You can't, yeah, right now it's blowing like Pat Patterson here with Priscilla Presley at the City Talk event. Talk to you soon. Hi, it's Pat Patterson with the Bus to Los Angeles Award and I'm here with our guest of honor, City Talk guest of honor, Norman Perlstein, who's the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Thank you for coming. Good to be here. Yeah, and, and so it's the, uh, Iowa caucuses. Right. We're here because we're, we're in love with Los Angeles. Tell us a little bit about what you're going to talk about tonight just in terms of how the news world is working in this highly politicized time. Well, I think there are a number of issues. One is just, um, the fact that the news business remains under, um, a period of extraordinary turbulence and change as, um, anyone who goes to an airport and takes a look around at who's reading print and who's looking at their phones. And so, um, there's part of what we're doing at the Los Angeles Times is a revival where we want to continue to maintain those things that have worked for so long, but also recognize the need to create new, new products for new audiences on new platforms. Against that backdrop, of course, is the extraordinary turbulence in our nation as evidenced by the resident of the White House. So, um, you know, with Super Tuesday being March 3rd and California having moved its primary up to that date, it's, um, and with, without a winner take all, uh, it's a very chaotic time. And I, the one thing I know is that, um, anybody who wants to handicap this year, I think, should look more to 2016 than to, say, 2000. Yeah, they were trying to do that, uh, last election. Yes. I'm a lifelong, uh, resident of Los Angeles, always a huge fan of the LA Times. You know, you guys, I'm a subscriber, you guys are doing God's work to keep this publication going. Well, it's great to have an owner who, um, cares about public service and the public interest and who's been willing to invest. It's up to us to, um, not only do great journalism, but figure out a, a business model that makes him want to be excited about continuing. Well, and, and to have the columnists that you're, you know, that have been so beloved and to have that. And I, and I do follow your digital platform, your online platform, and that's very robust. That's gotten a lot stronger. So we're, um, we have a ways to go. A little bit of a rebuilding. Yeah, yeah. But it requires, um, also a rebuilding on the business side because so many of our functions were really being run out of Chicago. Well, and I know you have a financial background, Wall Street Journal, and you started smart money, right? Right, yes, I did. And so you've got that hybrid, uh, ability of editorial and going, yeah, but Los Angeles has to be, right, but this is a special market and a special product, uh, in terms of the license that we have to do very important work, uh, that's relevant to Southern California, but also to people who care about Southern California. Yeah, and it's a, it's a hodgepodge of communities that doesn't have a center, and it's very difficult to cover, I'm sure. That's right. Well, um, we've got a lot of work to do. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Well, we're looking forward to your talk. Well, thank you. Norm Perlstein, I appreciate your time. It's Pat Patterson with the Best of California. Talk to you soon. Thank you.