Ha! Gotta love that poetic justice. Veteran LA Times
reporter, Jim Rainey, wrote an article last week
titled "LAWeekly's agressive slant erodes quality".
http://lablips.dailyradar.com/story/la_weekly_s_aggressive_s
lant_erodes_quality_los/
It was about Daniel Heimpel's biased opinion pieces of LA
Mayor that were thinly veiled as professional journalism.
Stewart is a real piece of work who apparently has a long
standing reputation for using these tactics. Heimpel
appears to be her MiniMe.
If you are recall, this dynamic duo did a hit piece on my
family and I last summer. I was a victim of these less than
forthright tactics used by Ms. Stewart and her prodigy,
MiniMe Heimpel.
As you all know, I advocate for people made ill from
environmental exposures. Through my and others' efforts,
we have effectively exposed a deception in US public health
policy. At our urging, Senator Edward Kennedy requested a
Federal Government Accountability Office audit into the
matter. As a result, we now have less conflicted science
over the issue coming from the Federal government.
For my efforts of being a good and involved citizen,
Stewart and Heimpel chose to character assassinate not only
me, but my husband and children- who are not even involved
in advocating over the issue. Through this assassination
they attempted to discount my words and thus discount the
words of all of those for whom I advocate.
No less than seven of the people Heimpel claimed to have
interviewed for the hit piece article, stated in writing to
the LAWeekly that they were grossly misquoted or never even
interviewed at all. Some, who were interviewed via email,
provided documentation of the false quotes attributed to
them. One even blogged of Heimpel's misquotes of him. He
wrote that he was never asked about me by Daniel Heimpel or
anyone at LAWeekly. This blogger is not even on the same
side of the issue I am.
http://overlawyered.com/2008/07/la-weekly-the-mold-rush-and-
the-case-of-sharon-kramer-and-bruce-kelman/
Even after being told of all the misquotes, told that I was
getting hang up calls in the middle of the night and told
that I was fearful for the safety of my children from the
hatred inciting, false light writing of Heimpel and
Stewart; LAWeekly, and their parent company of New Times,
Village Voice, still refused to retract.
Now, Jill Stewart is whining that she has been wronged by
the media. calling Mr. Rainey's truthful writing a "cheap
broadside".
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oew-
stewart25-2009jun23,0,5123526.story
Personally, I find it now to be quite telling of Stewart's
character that she would cry foul for someone bringing the
harm from her interpretation of journalism to greater
light. Apparently, Stewart can dish it out but she can't
take it. I also find it to be a poor taste joke that MiniMe
Heimpel received an investigative journalist award for this
garbage about the Mayor. This is an insult to the true
journalists that are left out there who try to report
balanced and accurate news.
Mr. Rainey's understanding of Jill Stewart's bizarre
interpretation of the word "journalist" is exactly
correct. From what I can tell, many of these little weekly
and their linked blogs have become nothing more than a
vast, agenda driven, marketing network of Village
Voiceovers, who could care less about truth in journalism.
Sharon Kramer
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