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  • LA Times Talking About the LA Weekly

    Posted on June 19th, 2009 admin No comments

    Where I do appreciate the attempt to be non-bias, this article reeks of slant by the Times. It is an obvius attempt at misdirection. Read at your own risk.
    latimes.com – When the LA Weekly wrote a lengthy story last September about how little Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attended to his official duties, it wasn’t plowing fresh soil.

    The mayor’s exuberant fundraising and his frenetic campaigning on behalf of presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton had already received plenty of attention, in this paper and elsewhere.

    The media, rightly, should do whatever it can to determine if a politician is already measuring the drapes for his next office while sitting in his current one.

    But as it has with several stories in recent times, the Weekly didn’t let the facts speak for themselves in its Villaraigosa takedown.

    Instead, it employed more semantic spin than Kobe Bryant puts on a jump shot, along with a prosecutorial methodology that proved much more about the declining quality of our city’s dominant alternative newspaper than it did about our attention-grasping mayor.

    I got to thinking about this when the Phoenix-based company that publishes the Weekly forced the resignation of its thoughtful editor, Laurie Ochoa, late last month.

    It was the latest departure in a protracted exodus by many of the Weekly’s best-known and most accomplished journalists.
    Read the rest at: latimes.com.

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