L.A. Times Suspends Web Site Blog

[DoYouEverWonder]

April 21, 2006, 7:56 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Times suspended an Internet blog written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter because the paper says he posted items using assumed names.

The newspaper is still investigating the postings on its online Golden State blog by Michael Hiltzik, a Times spokeswoman said.

"Hiltzik admitted Thursday that he posted items on the paper's website, and on other websites, under names other than his own," the Times said in a "Notice from the Editors" posted on its site Friday.

It said the postings violate newspaper ethics guidelines that require editors and reporters to identify themselves when dealing with the public.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-times-blog-reporter,0,2595563.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[goclark]

1. Was he a Liberal

cause the Times leans RIGHT IMO.

[rumpel]

2. damn. His articles are very good.

[Ian David]

3. He's being persecuted because he's a Christian. n/t