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Los Angeles Times

Media / analysts

Assembled from 109 messages that mention Los Angeles Times across eight Enron mailboxes, Jul 2000 – Dec 2001. Every line below was read out of correspondence, and every line opens the message it came from.

The Los Angeles Times is the paper whose California energy-crisis and Enron coverage Enron clipped and circulated, courted with an editorial-board visit, and worked with on supplier pricing.

What the brain knew on
Jul 1999Jul 2000Jul 2001Jun 2002

Drag it, or use the arrow keys for one step at a time and Home and End for the ends. Durable facts accumulate; the ones that were only true for a while appear, then expire with a reason attached. The relationship itself changes once.

What we know

The consolidated view, as it stood on the selected date.

Contents

Sections in the order they mattered to the company. The counts follow the date you have selected.

Two kinds of fact

A brain that only keeps what is permanently true is a reference book, and it would have been no use to anyone at Enron in November 2001. A brain that keeps everything is the inbox again. The distinction that matters is not true versus false. It is durable versus current. A current fact carries what would end it. Sometimes the message gives a date and the page shows it; more often it gives only the condition, and the page says that instead of inventing a date the mail never stated.

109messages across eight mailboxes name it
110of those are cited as a source somewhere on this page
197facts still worth knowing to someone who was not there
19were worth knowing at one point, and the brain records what makes them expire