Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003
Readers Keep Fleeing Biased L.A. Times
Bias on the news pages of a paper is not only unethical and immoral, it's expensive. Just ask the hacks at the Democrat house organ known as the Los Angeles Times.
People are continuing to cancel subscriptions, embattled Times editor John Carroll admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle. He wouldn't give new numbers, but days ago the Times acknowledged a thousand cancellations.
Free-lance columnist Jill Stewart has revealed that since 1997, the rag had "been sitting on" reports of Gov. Gray Davis' history of violence against women. She noted the Times' hypocrisy in launching a partisan attack on Schwarzenegger sparked by far less serious accusations.
"It's nothing short of journalistic malpractice when a paper mounts a last-minute attack that can make or break one of the most important elections in California history," Stewart noted.
Carroll claims his rag looked into charges that Davis had been abusive toward female staff members and was not been able to corroborate them. But if any anonymous person says Schwarzenegger made an off-color joke, that's suitable for Page One.
Carroll continues to duck the issue of another outrageous example of the paper's hypocrisy: burying and censoring news of Bill Clinton the rapist while trumpeting claims of Schwarzenegger the fondler.
Fox News star Bill O'Reilly has pointed out, "There's no question the Times used its vast resources to try and keep Gray Davis in office."
Rep. Darrell Issa told the Chronicle: "John Carroll seems unrepentant for this act for which the voters are very angry. I would say no lesson has been learned.
"I'm disturbed that John Carroll does not represent a change for the Los Angeles Times. The press should hang its head in shame."
Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center (!) at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications, said, "I think this has been absorbed into the general loathing of the media."
And here's Carroll's knee-slapping response: "In the long run, I believe this will strengthen the paper's relationship with the readers."
To cancel a subscription to the L.A. Times, call 1-800-252-9141.
Readers Keep Fleeing Biased L.A. Times
Bias on the news pages of a paper is not only unethical and immoral, it's expensive. Just ask the hacks at the Democrat house organ known as the Los Angeles Times.
People are continuing to cancel subscriptions, embattled Times editor John Carroll admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle. He wouldn't give new numbers, but days ago the Times acknowledged a thousand cancellations.
Free-lance columnist Jill Stewart has revealed that since 1997, the rag had "been sitting on" reports of Gov. Gray Davis' history of violence against women. She noted the Times' hypocrisy in launching a partisan attack on Schwarzenegger sparked by far less serious accusations.
"It's nothing short of journalistic malpractice when a paper mounts a last-minute attack that can make or break one of the most important elections in California history," Stewart noted.
Carroll claims his rag looked into charges that Davis had been abusive toward female staff members and was not been able to corroborate them. But if any anonymous person says Schwarzenegger made an off-color joke, that's suitable for Page One.
Carroll continues to duck the issue of another outrageous example of the paper's hypocrisy: burying and censoring news of Bill Clinton the rapist while trumpeting claims of Schwarzenegger the fondler.
Fox News star Bill O'Reilly has pointed out, "There's no question the Times used its vast resources to try and keep Gray Davis in office."
Rep. Darrell Issa told the Chronicle: "John Carroll seems unrepentant for this act for which the voters are very angry. I would say no lesson has been learned.
"I'm disturbed that John Carroll does not represent a change for the Los Angeles Times. The press should hang its head in shame."
Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center (!) at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications, said, "I think this has been absorbed into the general loathing of the media."
And here's Carroll's knee-slapping response: "In the long run, I believe this will strengthen the paper's relationship with the readers."
To cancel a subscription to the L.A. Times, call 1-800-252-9141.
