The Los Angeles Times showed the same reluctance in covering the end of the mayor’s marriage.<\/p>\n
The National Enquirer for the past decade has been as accurate as the LA Times.<\/p>\n
I can’t believe that LAT blogging czar Tony Pierce wanted to issue this edict.<\/p>\n
If I had been in his position, I would’ve refused.<\/p>\n
If I were an LA Times employee, I would refuse to follow this command.<\/p>\n
Fancy a newspapers telling its employees not to cover the news!<\/p>\n
It is not true to say that the National Enquirer is the only source for this story. It started on the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n
Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n LAT <\/em>Gags Blogs:<\/strong> In a move<\/a> that has apparently stirred up some internal discontent, the Los Angeles Times<\/em> has banned its bloggers , including political bloggers, from mentioning the <\/strong>Edwards\/Rielle Hunter<\/strong><\/a> story.<\/strong> Even bloggers who want to mention the story in order to make a skeptical we-don’t-trust-the-Enquirer <\/em>point are forbidden from doing so. Kausfiles<\/em> has obtained a copy of the email Times<\/em> bloggers received from editor Tony Pierce. [I’ve excised the recipient list and omitted Pierce’s email address]:<\/p>\n From: <\/strong><\/span>"Pierce, Tony"<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> <\/span>July 24, 2008 10:54:41 AM PDT<\/p>\n To:<\/strong> [XXX] <\/span><\/p>\n Subject: <\/span>john edwards <\/strong><\/p>\n Hey bloggers,<\/p>\n There has been a little buzz surrounding John Edwards and his alleged affair. Because the only source has been the National Enquirer we have decided not to cover the rumors or salacious speculations. So I am asking you all not to blog about this topic until further notified.<\/p>\n If you have any questions or are ever in need of story ideas that would best fit your blog, please don’t hesitate to ask<\/p>\n Keep rockin,<\/p>\n Tony<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That will certainly calm paranoia about the Mainstream Media (MSM) suppressing the Edwards scandal. …<\/p>\n P.S.:<\/strong> Is the Times’<\/em> edict a)<\/strong> part of a double-standard that favors Democrats (and disfavors Republicans like Rep. Vito Fossella and John McCain<\/a>)? Or does it b)<\/strong> simply reflect an outmoded Gatekeeper Model of journalism<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> in which not <\/em>informing readers of certain sensitive allegations is as important as informing them–as if readers are too simple-minded to weigh charges that are not proven, as if they aren’t going to find out about such controversies anyway? I’d say it’s a mixture of both (a) and (b). This was a sensational scandal the LAT <\/em>and other MSM papers passionately did not <\/em>want to uncover <\/strong>when Edwards was a formal candidate, and now that the Enquirer<\/em> seems to have done the job for them it looks like they want everyone to shut up while they fail to uncover it again. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Los Angeles Times showed the same reluctance in covering the end of the mayor’s marriage. The National Enquirer for the past decade has been as accurate as the LA Times. I can’t believe that LAT blogging czar Tony Pierce … Continue reading \n