Sock Puppet Soliloquy: LAT's Michael Hiltzik, Praised and Buried

One, we get it, already: Michael Hiltzik used pseudonyms – and not just to post blog comments anonymously. He also used pseudonyms to buttress his own positions on blogs, including his own, and to disparage those who disagreed with his. Like we said, we get it.

This latter point was largely ignored by both The New York Times and the Washington Post, both of which in their coverage left out Hiltzik’s cheering-from-the-sidelines at his own moves, as did we. Why?