Is The L.A. Times Ignoring Eminent Domain Issues?

Matt Welch, a media columnist for Reason magazine, charges that the LA Times "consistently failed to cover the property-seizing excesses of the school district's historic building boom."

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December 8, 2005, 7:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"The paper has consistently failed to cover the property-seizing excesses of the school district's historic building boom, even in long features about … the district's historic building boom.

...I certainly don't expect or even want Spring Street's reporters and editors to share my own preoccupations with eminent domain. But I do think it's reasonable to expect at least one affected homeowner, or property-rights enthusiast, to be quoted when the paper devotes long articles to what staff writer Cara Mia DiMassa described as possibly 'the largest public works project in the western United States.' "

Sunday, November 27, 2005 in The Los Angeles Times

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