Remember when I told you last year about the anonymous L.A. Times editor who pinched a paragraph from the Washington Post? The Local Liberty Blog points out the weirdest thing: although the mistake was blamed on an editor, the article in question was written by Eric Slater — the reporter who just got fired by the paper for shoddy reporting.
Coincidence? Possibly. But an interesting one.
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Slater Fights Back (Pattern Forming?)
Local Liberty (a8d754) — 4/20/2005 @ 11:24 amA google news search reveals that the story of Eric Slater, the reporter recently fired by the LAT for an error ridden story on Chico State University, has spread far and wide. What still isn’t clear to some is that there is a strong possibility that …