The bias in the LA Times’ groper stories (backed-up mainly by anonymous sources), and its simultaneous spiking of stories on Davis’ physical assaults on former employees, have prompted Times readers to cancel their subscriptions en masse. This from the horse’s mouth:
As of Saturday evening, about 1,000 readers had cancelled their subscriptions to protest the handling of the Schwarzenegger story. In addition, the newspaper had received as many as 400 phone calls critical of its coverage — many angry, some profane.
The New York Times lost subscribers under the Raines reign, and this is exactly what should happen when papers become de facto tools of puke politics.
Link via Ben Domenich.
Jill’s original story on Davis’ abuse of his office staff is on the Winds of Change blog. Here’s one lurid tale:
On the day in question, State Controller Davis was raging over an employee’s rearranging of framed artwork on his Los Angeles office walls. He stormed, red-faced, out of his office and violently shoved the woman, who we shall call K., out of his way. According to employees who were present, K. ran out clutching her purse, suffered an emotional breakdown, was briefly hospitalized at Cedars Sinai for a severe nervous dermatological reaction, and never returned to work again.
According to one close friend, K. refused to sue Davis, despite the advice of several friends, after a prominent Los Angeles attorney told her that Davis would ruin her. According to one state official. K. was allowed to continue her work under Davis from her home “because she refused to work in Davis’s presence.”
Why doesn’t the LA Times want you to know this?