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<p>How The Times decided to publish the accounts of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.</p> <p>The volcanic passions of the recall are largely spent, though we'll no doubt be feeling their effects for many years. Today, on this Sunday of relative calm, I'd like to tell you how the Los Angeles Times decided to publish the stories of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.</p>

Paper Put Two Hit Teams on Arnold, Zero Hit Team on Davis I couldn't have been more shocked to see the lurid stories about Arnold Schwarzenegger and the things several women allege he uttered or did to them. But it wasn't over the allegations, which I had read much of in a magazine before. I was most shocked at the Los Angeles Times. Some politicos dub the Thursday before a big election "Dirty Tricks Thursday." That's the best day for an opponent to unload his bag of filth against another candidate, getting maximum headlines, while giving his stunned opponent no...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Critics slammed the Los Angeles Times on Thursday for printing -- just days before the California recall -- allegations that Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed women, but the paper's editor said the decision to publish was made solely on journalistic grounds. Times Editor John Carroll said the story, which was investigated for seven weeks, was printed as soon as it was ready -- even though that was five days before the Oct. 7 recall election. "We expected criticism, but we're in the business of publishing information, not withholding it from the public," Carroll told Reuters in...