Newspaper that exposed hypocrite Mayor Jim West is mean!

[devilgrrl]

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Mayor Under Fire, but Paper Feeling Heat Too

Spokane's James West is accused of sex abuse. But many call a newspaper's inquiry tactics bad news.

By Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writer

SPOKANE, Wash. — In this normally placid city, which some call "the world's biggest small town" and where a road sign proclaims there have been no traffic fatalities this year, the shocking questions about the mayor and the local newspaper just keep coming.

Is Mayor James E. West a pedophile, as two men alleged to the paper last week? Did he offer young men jobs and perks in a bid to have sex with them? Is he a hypocrite, announcing he is homosexual after a 25-year public career — including a stint as the state Senate majority leader — in which he opposed gay rights? Should he resign? Or be recalled?

And was the Spokane Spokesman-Review justified in lying in a bid to get at the truth?

The paper hired a forensic computer expert to pose as a 17-year-old boy who conducted an online relationship with the mayor. West has admitted to using screen aliases such as RightBi-Guy and Cobra82nd, an apparent reference to his service as a paratrooper in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

Sordid details emerge every day in the newspaper's ongoing investigative report on the Republican mayor's alleged misuse of office.

more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-spokane12may12,0,6806856.story?coll=la-home-headlines



Please flood the LATimes with LTTE's

[LiberallyInclined]

1. if it's o.k. for the cops to pose as kids to catch pedo's-

why shouldn't the press be able to as well...?
cops aren't allowed(supposedly) to break the law to enforce the law.