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"... Kathy McIver is a Democrat from La Habra and a longtime subscriber to The Times. Today's paper, she says, will be the last that will be delivered to her door..."

"... She is angry about The Times' coverage... that they would do that type of investigation and not balance it..."

"... To me this is a fairness issue," said Debbie Mahoney, a 52-year-old Northern California resident... She said The Times has demonstrated "true bias"..."

"... The Times has laid "this stuff out like stink bombs at the last moment... " said Bill Agee, a 64-year-old Capistrano Beach resident."

"He identified himself as a political moderate who is registered as an independent. He said he canceled his 20-year subscription to the paper last year. "I just got tired of the slant, to be honest with you," he said..."

"...Lewis Garrigus, 55, a retired financial analyst who described himself as a longtime Times reader, was among those saying he would cancel his subscription..."

"It's not just me saying the L.A. Times is prejudiced," said Garrigus... "It's everyone. I finally got absolutely sick of it..."

"... I swear, I can't stand it anymore," he said. "There are never two sides of something on the front page. Who does your editor think he's kidding?"

"... readers... have flooded the paper with calls, e-mails and letters..."

"As of Saturday evening, about 1,000 readers had canceled their subscriptions to protest the handling of the Schwarzenegger story. In addition, the newspaper had received as many as 400 phone calls critical of its coverage — many angry, some profane."

"About 800 people had written to praise the newspaper's coverage, many apparently motivated by a liberal Web site that urged readers to register their support."

"... Jamie Gold... The Times' readers' representative... is responsible for responding to complaints, said she was aware of few events that have ever triggered such anger by the newspaper's readers..."

"... Editor John Carroll responded that he believed The Times has provided balanced coverage... "We didn't have a story until the day we ran it," Carroll said. "We were working for seven weeks, seeking women, trying to persuade the women we found to talk with us..."

"... Carroll said the reporters had, for the most part, made "cold calls" to people in the film industry after hearing that Schwarzenegger had a reputation for mistreating women. For instance, he said, they had called women listed in the credits of movies starring Schwarzenegger..."

"... Some readers have responded to allegations made on television by a former Times staffer, Jill Stewart, that the newspaper had finished the Schwarzenegger story two weeks before it was published, and that reporters were unhappy that the story had been held up..."

"... Carla Hall, one of the principal reporters who worked on the story, said that was not true. She said the story wasn't finished until the day before it appeared in the newspaper..."

Right. They didn't have a story until the day they ran it.

The question is...Did they meet their production deadline?

It took them weeks to assemble the 'facts', their pursuit of truth having operated on the philosophy that 'parts is parts', creating a news item out of bits and pieces of cloth, as opposed to whole cloth, for which they could be sued.

They are simply a Rat Party organ, as they called these rags in the good 'ol USS of R.

;^)

"... Editor John Carroll responded that he believed The Times has provided balanced coverage... "We didn't have a story until the day we ran it," Carroll said. "We were working for seven weeks, seeking women, trying to persuade the women we found to talk with us..."

Hey John! I don't believe you. Not even a little bit!