{"id":504,"date":"2007-07-20T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T18:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2007-12-08T22:19:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T05:07:22","slug":"wheres-the-scrutiny-of-the-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s The Scrutiny Of The Mayor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not in The Los Angeles Times it appears.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist outside the Times says: &quot;It&#8217;s struck me that the news media covering Villar has gone back into  its ostrich-head-in-the-sand  mode. not much serious follow up. The ERSnews.com stuff is interesting but no one seems  to be asking hard questions  about it. I would at least like to read a story  that has a graf  reading &quot;An examination of contracts showed that neither Cerrell   Associates nor any of their clients received any city contract six  months  before the sales of the condo or six months after&#8230;&quot; The Ana Garcia stuff  was good, but NBC appears to be the only news  organization willing to spend  the money for legal work challenging  the mayor on the release of this information. Lots of other potential ledes as well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not in The Los Angeles Times it appears. Shocking. A journalist outside the Times says: &quot;It&#8217;s struck me that the news media covering Villar has gone back into its ostrich-head-in-the-sand mode. not much serious follow up. 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