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LA Prosecutor Responds to Meyerson, Laceynew
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve
Cooley calls a column by LA
Weekly's Harold Meyerson and a
letter to the editor of the Wall Street
Journal written by New Times'
Michael Lacey "self-interested
positions staked out by those who are
directly affected by this investigation."
Cooley claims he reads LA Weekly
"because it is a valuable news
organ" and says New Times LA was
"occasionally very funny, on occasion very
insightful, on occasion very cruel." He
argues that "It's wrong ... to attribute
political motives to government
agencies that are just doing their jobs. ...
we're at the investigative stage. At the end
of the exercise, there may be a
determination that what's been uncovered
falls short of establishing a violation
of the law."
Los Angeles Times |
01-26-2003 4:09 pm |
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Meyerson on the Antitrust Investigationnew
The Justice Department's investigation of
the Village Voice Media-New Times deal
to close weeklies in Cleveland and Los
Angeles is apparently driven by a concern
"that the assisted suicide of New Times
in Los Angeles
reflects
a narrowing of political
perspectives in the city, and that it is
the government's responsibility
to create
more ideological space," Harold
Meyerson writes. He
adds that if investigators really looked
they would find at least as much
"ideologically driven or
monomaniacal" editorial slant at the
dailies as at alternative newsweeklies.
LA Weekly |
01-23-2003 9:34 am |
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