L.A. Times pulls columnist's blog over Web fake

Yahoo News ^ | 4/21/06 | Dan Whitcomb

[Liberty1970]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times has suspended the blog of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who posed as an Internet reader to defend his own column and attack his conservative foes.

The Times apparently learned of Michael Hiltzik's multiple identities from another blogger, Patrick Frey, who was slammed by the columnist under a pseudonym. Frey, author of a blog called Patterico's Pontifications (www.patterico.com), traced the writer back to Hiltzik's computer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060421/wr_nm/media_latimes_dc_3

[Liberty1970]

Talk about a lame way to screw up.

[Cecily]

Busted.

[Tribune7]

ping

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

What a dope.

Yey another Pulitzer-winner exposed as a fraud. (see the CIA-leak thread)

[NewHampshireDuo]

And the Pulitzer Prize is a measure of....??

(Just like the Nobel Peace Prize is a measure of....?)

[Chi-townChief]

Yet another Pulitzer phony - ya gotta love it.

[dc27]

Which Freepers were his conservative foes?

[oolatec]

But he still gets to keep his job. Typical.

[Rokke]

That's kind of like posting on your own opus using an different Freepname. Not that anyone on this site would stoop so low....

[SquirrelKing]

He was arging with his internet "hand-puppet".

[randog]

"We're just trying to find out what happened and make sure we're looking at all sides," Moynihan said. "When that's completed we'll make any further decisions if we feel they are warranted."

TRANSLATION: "We're going to act concerned until you forget about this story, then we'll do nothing"

[King Prout]

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Katia Dumas STRIKES AGAIN!

[Chode]

HA ha...
and the RATS take another one in the...

[King Prout]

[onyx]

HAR!

[Mo1]

Multiple personalities huh??

They are morphing into Cybill now ?? ... *L*

hey Sam ... here's another Pulitzer Prize winner for ya

[bpjam]

Its hard to believe that a 'reporter' feels the need to blog anonymously. And then trashes people that he writes stories about. What scum.

[TASMANIANRED]

Need to practice some gun control.

[King Prout]

it's all in tha wrist, dawlin'

[newzjunkey]

This kind of thing happens and has happened in a variety of forms for ages. I'm glad this guy was found out. Another black-eye for the LA Slimes.

10-15 years ago Microsoft used to employ such tactics (employees posing as independent voices) to push the mindshare of its business products.

[Fido969]

What a dipstick.

"See! People LIKE me!"

ha ha

[Sam Hill]

"hey Sam ... here's another Pulitzer Prize winner for ya"

Being a fraud is clearly a prerequisite.

[lowbridge]

Pulitzer Prizes For Treachery

[ozzymandus]

Jeeze, another lying liberal MSM phony gets caught lying and cheating. This is getting to be an every-day thing.

[HKMk23]

And the Pulitzer Prize is a measure of....??

Er, uh...your pulitzer, maybe??

[Slings and Arrows]

[Northern Alliance]

Great graphic - keep 'em coming!

[NicknamedBob]

What does the LA Times have to do with his blog? Were they hosting it?

It's more like, "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times has suspended the blog covered up the evidence of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist ..."

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Is that a cock? Or is it a pullet? (sorry, I'm been naughty again!!)

[Slings and Arrows]

Is that a cock? Or is it a pullet?

You can't have a pullet if you don't have a cock.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There is song over this country about a farmer who brings his rooster and hen to the fair, but they run off, so he is running down the street after his poultry shouting at everyone: "Someboby please, please, catch my cock and pullet."