Times gets scooped on feds probe of Rocky — it’s Sam Zell’s fault
Clearly, there can’t be any other explanation for the San Francisco Chronicle of all papers scooping the Times on the federal probe of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo — it’s got to be Zell’s fault, isn’t everything?
At least it seems that way if you listen to KCRW and KPPC and all the coverage they’ve given to blaming the Times’ decline and fall on the guy who bought the paper a year ago instead of the people who ran it for years.
Columnist Tim Rutten doesn’t go that far today in his sour grapes column. Instead he makes the odd assertion that the FBI has the moral obligation to go public and announce it’s investigating Rocky — which is funny since the Times has lived off of anonymous federal sources stories for years. It must be Zell’s fault the feds fed it to the Chronicle this time.
That said, the Times had half its sadly depleted staff working day and night on the story and throws around the names Diane Castano-Sallee and her minority outreach firm and Helen Mars and her printing company as people questioned in the investigation that appears to be focused on Michelle Delgadillo, Rocky’s wife with the bad driving record.
Another day, another L.A. “feelgood” law that will be selectively enforced
You got to have a laugh at the County Supervisors passing a law to hold parents liable for the cost of cleaning up after their kids spray-paint graffiti all over the place.
Even Supervisor Gloria Molina suggests the goal is to shake up parents who pay no attention to their kids rather than actually hold them responsible.
And that’s the problem: Why not start enforcing the laws and actually holding parents responsible for truancy and neglecting them to the point they join a gang for something to do.
Twenty years ago, Tom Bradley suggested cracking down on irresponsible parents and the howl was so great, he never brought up the idea again.
Why did the Chron scoop the LAT on Rocky???
Gee, could it have anything to to with maybe the Chron has better sources than the LAT in the US Atty’s office in SAN FRANCISCO!
Please God, let this be as good as Eliot Spitzer.
Actually Ron I’ve been waiting for years for parents to be held responsable for their kids damage. I ran a volunteer graffiti abatement team in the East Valley for years. It’s expensive, hard work to remove the wanton damage left by idiots. It’s time for those who sprayed it to pay for it.
I don’t think that the law itself is the feel good issue. The County’s Probation Dept.’s Cheif must want to enforce this law consistantly. By consistantly, I mean not just on high profile cases involving wealthy defendants.
Traditionally, our Probation Dept. has wanted to “save souls” rather than hold miscreants accountable. Letters to our County Supervisors urging the enforcment of the law are in order.
And, our Juvenile Court judges must see that it isn’t just about the kid in trouble.
(neighborhoodwatchdog is now neighborhoodwatchbear to avoid confusion with other neighborhoodwatchdog’s on the net)
As a single parent I applaud the county supervisor’s decision to hold parents accountable for their kids’ uncontrolled impulses to draw and paint on public property.
As a teacher I have met too many parents who seem to think that everyone who interacts with their child is supposed to raise them for the parent. They can’t. They are too busy working.
While I do agree that is takes a village to raise a child (a phrase Ron may despise), there is NO SUBSTITUTE for the authority and accountability that an aware and in touch parent can provide for his or her child.
A teacher can inform, a teacher can help, friends can help, support groups can help parents, but the bottom line is, the parents must teach their kids right from wrong.Every child values his or her parents’ love and respect more than the respect of anyone else on earth. Too many parents are blind to that truth and the power they really do have to influence their kids’ decisions.
Perhaps the parents aren’t teaching right from wrong because they don’t know the difference themselves? Fine. The cops and the county laws can teach them.
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