LA Times employee follows Michael Hiltzik’s foolish footsteps and fails to erase them as well
A commenter called “Masha” left this nice message on Patterico’s blog today:
If it were up to you, I’d know nothing but your idiotic propaganda. You’re all worse than Pravda.
Guess where Masha works? Yep, the Los Angeles Times. What’s next, fish […]
Cathy Seipp is reporting in her blog that the LA Times is investigating Hiltzik’s work in general for other signs of dishonesty.
This would include is regular Business section column, which we’ve critiqued from a story selection perspective but never for ethical transgressions.
The enormously negative reaction to the revelations about Hiltzik’s actions have gotten some […]
Here (h/t: LA Observed).
But not in the LAT! Insider reports it’s on p2 of the LAT print edition front section: “They put the same text that was on the website about the blog being pulled and the investigation on page 2 of the Front page section. They did not assign a writer or add provide […]
What to do about Michael Hiltzik?
I hope that as editors at the Los Angeles Times ponder that question, they are able to isolate Hiltzik’s act from the medium, and not retreat from their (limited) efforts to a create more interactive news organization.
Hiltzik’s self-promoting pseudonymous comments crossed a line — but as his angry anti-Patterico screed […]
Does anyone else think it’s funny that Michael Hiltzik once got disciplined for logging into other people’s email accounts and reading their mail?
Patterico’s post unmasking Michael Hiltzik’s deceptive comments at Patterico’s Pontifications — and here at Independent Sources — mentioned an earlier incident where Hiltzik assumed someone else’s identity. Here’s more:
Reporter Disciplined for Reading His […]
… and it all started with a comment on this blog (here; analysis here).
With Patterico’s evidence presumably in hand, the Los Angeles Times has given Michael Hiltzik’s Golden State blog a time out:
Notice from the Editors
The Times has suspended Michael Hiltzik’s Golden State blog on latimes.com. Hiltzik admitted Thursday that he posted items on the […]
UpdateThe Los Angeles Times blog that Michael Hiltzik blogs has been taken down for violation of Times’ ethics guidelines. In part because Mr. Hiltzik did not identify himself when on Independent Sources and in fact denied being him when confronted.
Update: It is back up but without the post where he admits/defends what he did and […]
Disgruntled commenter “nofanofcablecos” thinks we violated our privacy policy when Insider surmised that he was really the Los Angeles Times‘ Michael Hiltzik.
(long post … click on “Read the rest of this entry” for the rest )
Technorati Tags: Hiltzik, LA Times, LAT, Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Is the Los Angeles Times‘ Michael Hiltzik censoring Patterico (here, here)? Or just not allowing links in comments? Check back tomorrow for the answer!
Update, Tuesday Evening 4/18: Looks like it’s selective moderation!
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Meanwhile, we had some comments by a person we strongly believe to be Hiltzik using the nom de comment Nofanofcablecos here. Nothing is more […]
Cathy Seipp readers — see additional information in Update 2 at the bottom of this post.
Patterico points us to Independent Sources nemisis Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times, who uses precisely two data points to prove to his satisfaction that Hugh Hewitt’s audience is declining — by 20% in two months, according to his […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The headline is lifted from a thoroughly enjoyable post from Patterico as he skewers Michael Hiltzik’s take on a Costa Mesa program to check the status of illegal immigrants arrested for serious crimes. It is worthy reading.
Technorati Tags: Hiltzik, LA Times, LAT, Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I don’t know about you but here at Independent Sources central we like to watch TV. However by watching TV we mean watching a lot of DVDs rented from Netflix and then about a half-dozen channels (particularly HBO, History Channel, OLN, Fox News, CNN, Comedy Central and the Fox Network). That’s about it so when […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)On Monday, when Senator Barbara Boxer asked Daily Kos readers to sign a petition to Donald Rumsfeld, her thread was immediately hijacked by commenters who showed the impeccable logic and sense of reality for which Kos readers are justly reknowned. A sampling:
Domestic Politics
“It must be awful being in Congress on the wrong side of a […]
A Field Poll released today shows that Senator Barbara Boxer’s approval rating has fallen to a nine year low of 41%. That nadir is driven by a 13% drop in approval by Democrats over the past year, accompanied by a 5% drop among non-partisan respondents.
As of this writing (10pm Tuesday), only the Sacramento Bee has […]
FactCheck.org tells us that
A liberal, labor-funded group calling itself Americans United for Change (previously Americans United to Preserve Social Security) is running a $1-million national advertising campaign that makes some dubious claims and tries to imply more than it can prove.
Talk about rebranding! They used to be in favor of preserving the status quo, but […]
