Are LA Politicians Boring?

An editorial in today’s LA Times suggests an alternate theory to explain the paper’s non-reporting of political gossip, which Mickey Kaus pointed out last month in a widely-discussed guest column. (See January 31, about half-way down, for Kaus’s discussion of the fallout and a leaked John Carroll memo): The Los Angeles Times isn’t boring; Los Angeles politicians are boring.

An excerpt:

Could it be that West Coast politicians just can’t match the personal peccadilloes of their East Coast counterparts? After all, Kaus’ prime example was that The Times had only mentioned in passing Hahn’s separation from his second wife.

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