More than two weeks after it became clear that the LA Times fired me as a favor to the LAPD, a major daily newspaper is reporting about it.
A British newspaper.
Sam Thielman of The Guardian writes “Fired Los Angeles Times cartoonist hits back at newspaper for siding with LAPD” for today’s editions:
Pringle did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Nicholas Goldberg, the editor of the opinion page who wrote the note appended to Rall’s May column, said he was not authorized to comment on the story.
The Times press office has been contacted for comment.
The LAPD did not respond to a request for comment, but the department’s union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, said they “applaud the L.A. Times firing of cartoonist Ted Rall” in a blog post (since removed, but also issued as a press release here) describing how, “[s]ince [Rall’s] blog post, the LAPD has approached the Times and provided reports and records of the incident, including an audiotape of the encounter”.
Read the whole thing here.
2 Comments.
Keep it up Ted! You were right, the LA Times was wrong. An unjust firing!
Interesting – the Guardian sez that the editor in question wants to run for mayor, and is courting the cops.
That sounds like a conflict of interests if ever I heard one. It would be as bad as if elected officials turned around and started shilling for the corporations they were previously regulating, or if insiders got hired on as regulators by the government. Can you imagine such a thing happening in a democracy?