Editor of LA Times - The Story Behind the Story

[realFedUp]

(a good read on how this story was produced. It also
refutes Jill Stewarts' claims that this story was sat on,
also refutes story about Gray Davis)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-carroll12oct12230417,1,6308796.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

The Story Behind the Story
How The Times decided to publish the accounts of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
By John S. Carroll

October 12, 2003

The volcanic passions of the recall are largely spent, though we'll no doubt be feeling their effects for many years. Today, on this Sunday of relative calm, I'd like to tell you how the Los Angeles Times decided to publish the stories of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
-snip-

We assigned the task of investigating Schwarzenegger's reputation to two veteran reporters: Robert Welkos, who has covered Hollywood for half of his 25 years on the paper, and Gary Cohn, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for investigative reporting at the Baltimore Sun.

They were joined by Carla Hall, a former Washington Post reporter who has covered news and features here for a decade, and many others, most notably Tracy Weber and Megan Garvey.

The undertaking was not easy. How do you find women who say they have been mistreated? How do you persuade them to talk? How do you determine whether they're telling the truth?

[Cha]

1. Kick!

:kick:

"And when we publish, we do it in a timely fashion. Better, I say, to be surprised by your newspaper in October than to learn in November that your newspaper has betrayed you by withholding the truth"

[niyad]

2. thank you, missed that one-- and going to see that

all the little whiners who are screaming about the article and denying ah-nold's behaviour, are made aware of it.

[pippin]

3. most of the people who called

according to caroll's article, hadn't read the article! bet newspapers don't generally receive such an onslaught of letters or phone calls. isn't it apparent think the whole protest was organized by the arnold campaign?. :think:

[realFedUp]

4. or the talk radio show hosts in LA

I'm not a listener, but a lot of this ire was
stirred daily by AM radio talk show hosts in CA.
Hope they are happy with their choice.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. Yeah and Jill Stewart is one of the biggest Nazis

She's the one who repeatedly called Cruz Bustamante the "FRITO BANDITO" and urged White Christians to defend their race by voting for Arnold.

Jill Stewart is even MORE of a whore than Dr Whorra!

[realFedUp]

6. she certainly is working hard to be the next Ann Coulter....

I'm surprised Ahnold didn't ask her to be
on his extras list also...

[otohara]

7. Send Them A Big Thank You

for not being cowed into silence by the right-wing bully machine.