About that LA Times endorsement...

[Rebkeh]

I am not saying this happened again in LA but I'd like to know if it did.

You guys have to read this:

Atlanta Mayor's Column Ripping Bernie Sanders Drafted by Lobbyist, Emails Show
Lee Fang, The Intercept_
May 6, 2016

A FEW DAYS BEFORE the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

But emails released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.

Anne Torres, the mayor’s director of communications, told The Intercept this week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The column’s revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are documented in the emails.

Continue reading: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/06/hillary-super-pac-draft-oped/

[coffeeAM]

1. primary open to independents in a liberal state, I would say they have reached panic mode!

[deepestblue]

2. I just laugh at the "endorsements" etc.

It's as if the corporatist media doesn't think the genie is out of the bottle and we don't know how the game works. Thanks Bernie for exposing this rigged system to us all.

[surrealAmerican]

3. It does rather read like it was written by the Clinton campaign.

To my mind, that's suspicious. Their "criticism" of Bernie particularly appears to be the usual Clinton talking points.

Then again, the LA Times should not have to resort to plagiarism. They could easily have had some resident Hillary supporter write this.

[Pharaoh]

4. that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”

that one line right there is hilarious!

[JDPriestly]

5. The Los Anngeles Times is a conservative newspaper in a liberal town.

I stopped reading it because they refuse to adequately acknpwledge their terrible, deadly mistake of backing Bush's Iraq War.

The Downing Street Memos were covered (if you can call it that) in an obscure area of the newspaper.

The bogus reports of WMDs and the pro-war hype that lead
To the Iraq War were front page and center.

I consider rhat to be biased, unreliable reporting.

I don't need it in my house although the non-toxic ink makes the newspaper apprpriate for mr worm composting bin.