The Los Angeles Times had a tough time getting a bit of press history straight in a historical column:
Convention Center site — The Then and Now column in Sunday’s California section about the newspaper on the site of the Los Angeles Convention Center said Will Fowler, who claimed to be the first reporter on the scene of the 1947 Black Dahlia murder, worked for the Herald-Express. At the time, Fowler worked for the Los Angeles Examiner, and he said he called its city editor, Jim Richardson, not the Herald-Express’ Agness "Aggie" Underwood, after the body of Elizabeth Short was discovered. Also, the Herald-Express was a full-size newspaper, not a tabloid. In addition, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst did not buy the Los Angeles Examiner in 1903; he founded it. Also, the claim for the first use of Short’s nickname, the Black Dahlia, is widely disputed, but it originated in a Long Beach drugstore and was not coined by any newspaper.
