LA Times Hoses Writer, Readers
The Downtown News has a great piece by Jon Regardie about how the LA Times Current section fed false information to a free-lance writer. Seems the Times commissioned Tom Slater, a British professor of urban studies (who’d only been to LA twice) to write about gentrification in reference to the enforced power-washing of sidewalks of Skid Row, and the removal of the homeless and their belongings.
But the information wasn’t true, Slater either couldn’t or didn’t double-check what the Times gave him, and so, wrote about the hosing and sweeping aside of the homeless, and in so doing, tarnished the reputation of a local organization, CCEA,
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