St Pete Times knew (Foley) Nov.2005..Held story

[bluedog]

Damn.........can't trust even my local paper
..........they knew some info but held it.........they knew in Nov 2005



In November, the St. Petersburg Times contacted U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., after obtaining a series of e-mails from Foley to one of Alexander's former pages. In one of the e-mails, Foley had requested the page's photo, and the page forwarded the e-mails to an Alexander staffer asking if he was right to see it as "sick, sick, sick, sick."

Foley told the Times it was an innocent exchange, and Alexander told the Times in November he was unaware of the matter until the newspaper called. The Times never published a story, and never saw sexually explicit e-mails from Foley.

The "internal review" released by Hastert on Saturday says in fall 2005, Alexander's chief of staff contacted the Speaker's Office about Foley's e-mail exchange and that Alexander was concerned about it. The speaker's deputy chief of staff and in-house counsel told Alexander's aide to contact the House clerk, who oversees the page program.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/01/State/Scandal_leaves_GOP_in.shtml

[rodeodance]

1. umm. I did not know there is an actual 'internal review" by Assturd.

[lostnfound]

2. If it had no sexual content, perhaps they didn't see a story..or

didn't see a way to substantiate it?

I've respected the Times for many years. I am sure that operating in 'Jeb-land' makes it a little hard to carry on their legacy of independent real journalism..but I HOPE that the reason for not publishing this has to do with journalistic judgment (is there a story, is it able to be substantiated vs rumor) and not bias.

[zalinda]

3. This is my take on what I read

from another article in the paper. They don't comment on sexual orientation. They couldn't substantiate the story, because the parents wanted the story dropped.

Since then 5 pages have come forward and now it's a story that they can rely on.

zalinda