Rep. Alan B.
Mollohan, a Democrat from West Virginia, resigned on Friday from
the House ethics committee (that's ethics, folks) "amid
accusations that he used his congressional position to funnel money to
his own home-state foundations, possibly enriching himself in the
process,"
according to the Washington Post and other news outlets. One
place you won't read about this resignation, however, is
today's Los Angeles Times (Saturday, April 22, 2006). (A puny
291-word story about the charges appeared back on
April 9.)
This continues a repeated practice at the Times
of either delaying or simply ignoring news stories that are unflattering
to Democrats. NewsBusters
has already cataloged a number of instances of this in 2006:
Less than a month ago, when an unrenowned conservative
blogger named
Ben
Domenech was found to have committed plagiarism, the Times
felt that this episode was worthy of two stories on the
same day (here
(section A) and
here (Tim Rutten's "media" column). (And, needless to say, when
charges of plagiarism against
Al Franken were reported, the Times ignored this. The
cited examples did not rise to the same degree of Domenech; but
why the double standard? (Thanks,
Brian
Maloney).)
Hey,
Jamie Gold. Are you reading this?