No Press Story IDs Sentenced Former Bell, Calif. City Manager as a Dem

Tom Blumer
April 16th, 2014 2:06 PM
In September 2010, Lachlan Markay at NewsBusters put up a post entitled "Eight Dems Arrested in Bell, CA 'Corruption on Steroids' - Not a Single Mention of Party Affiliation From Media." Almost four years later (!), reviews of search engine results and specific news stories on the sentencing of Robert Rizzo, the community's former city manager, are again returning no mentions of the fact that…
 

Eight Dems Arrested in Bell, CA 'Corruption on Steroids' - Not a Singl

Lachlan Markay
September 21st, 2010 3:19 PM
Today, eight city council members were arrested in Bell, California for what Los Angeles County District Attorney labeled "corruption on steroids." Thus far, every major news outlet that has reported on the story has omitted the fact that all eight individuals arrested are Democrats.These glaring omissions come only weeks after NewsBusters reported that of the 351 stories on the then-brewing…
 

Of 351 Reports on Outrageous Bell, Calif. Salaries, Only One Mentions

Lachlan Markay
August 13th, 2010 12:26 PM
In late July, NB Contributing Editor Tom Blumer busted the Associated Press for neglecting to mention the party affiliations of scandal-plagued officials in Bell, California. The AP piece was one of hundreds of reports on the scandal. Of those hundreds, one solitary report mentioned party labels for the five officials.Can you guess which party they belong to? I'll bet you can.The only news outlet…