{"id":401,"date":"2007-07-05T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:37:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:25:02","slug":"whos-afraid-of-lashon-hara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Afraid Of Lashon Hara?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jewish Journal’s Brad E. Greenberg writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lashon hara<\/a> is Hebrew for "evil tongue," which I imagine looks something like a serpent’s. It is forbidden in Judaism not just to gossip, but to say anything that might hurt another person, even if true. That is why working in the Jewish media — yes that is different than MSM — demands a delicate dance. It seems secular newspapers, however, are concerned about lashon hara as well. (That is an over-generalization; journalists are very good at them.)<\/p>\n

The hottest story in LA right now is the rockstar mayor’s failed marriage. Though the LA Daily News<\/span> recovered nicely this week<\/a> by being the first to identify TV newscaster Mirthala Salinas as the vixen who sparked Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s divorce, the paper never published this story<\/a> by Tony Castro, filed in mid-January, that revealed the mayor hadn’t worn his wedding ring since at least September and hadn’t been seen with his wife since before then.<\/p>\n

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Here are some of my thoughts on lashon hara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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