Los Angeles Times yanks Hiltzik’s column and blog
LA Observed is reporting:
Editors at the Los Angeles Times have stripped Michael Hiltzik of his Golden State column in the Business section and suspended him as punishment for posting anonymous arguments on his blog and those of critics. He also loses the blog and will be reassigned to unspecified duties after his suspension, via a staff memo today (yeah, dumped on a Friday afternoon) from Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Doug Frantz that says the issue was misrepresentation.
The Times noted that “Hiltzik did not commit any ethical violations in his newspaper column, and an internal inquiry found no inaccurate reporting in his postings in his blog or on the Web.”
Hiltzik has not publicly commented on the matter since his ill-received response to the Patterico outting on his Golden State blog, which some readers called one of the worst blog postings of all time.
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