L.A. Times to fire scapegoat; leave everyone else in place

Later today the Los Angeles Fishwrap-Enquirer-Times will be releasing their report on the fate of reporter Eric Slater, who wrote a story about hazing at Chico State. See "The L.A. Times got something wrong?" for the backstory.

E&P reports on the latest developments:

Word spread in the newsroom today that Slater had been fired, but Goldstein would neither confirm nor deny that report. "We will communicate as soon as we have a statement to make," she told E&P this afternoon. "At this stage, we have nothing to communicate."

Top editors at the paper spent several hours in a closed-door meeting to discuss Slater's future, according to several sources.

Calls to Slater, Editor John Carroll, and Managing Editor Dean Baquet were not returned Monday...

Apparently the Times issued a correction on March 31.

If they get rid of Slater, what of all the rest? What about the numerous other sins of omission and comission? The problem with Slater seems to be that he was just too obvious about it.

Los_Angeles · Mon, 04/18/2005 - 12:46 · · Importance: 1

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