PBS Newshour 4/19/2011
Excerpt from transcript
MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): And, Jeff, so what does this say to you about the value of this kind of in-depth newspaper reporting, even at a time when newspapers, including The L.A. Times, are struggling, to some degree?
JEFF GOTTLIEB (Los Angeles Times reporter): Well, I think what this shows is how important newspapers are.
I mean, one of the dynamics in this story was, in Bell, there had been people in the community who had filed Public Records Act requests and they had been -- some had been pushed off. Others had been given, in fact, fake documents. But when a powerful institution like The L.A. Times came in and we threatened to sue, and they knew were serious -- we were serious, you know, they couldn't push us away.
I mean, this is just the sort of reporting that people depend on newspapers to do. And if newspapers don't do it, no one else is going to do it.
Especially most TV (really entertainment) News.
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