OC Weekly Editor Rips Mainstream Media for Lack of Prior Jenni Rivera Coverage

Never one to mince words, OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano is castigating the MSM in general and the Los Angeles Times in particular for their apathetic coverage of banda music superstar Jenni Rivera prior to her tragic death this weekend.

Although he admits that online newspaper archive searches can be misleading (and urges the LAT folks to correct him if he is wrong), he says he found traces of only two feature articles:

A look through the Proquest archives show that the Times never did a single full profile on Rivera – not once.

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