Nearly 1,000 Los Angeles Times subscribers suspended home delivery to
protest alleged pro-Palestinian reporting.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000027677apr18.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dpe%2Dcalifornia
The LA Times covers Southern California and is the largest newspaper in the
state, with a listed circ of 972,957 Daily and 1,369,066 on Sundays.
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April 18, 2002
LOS ANGELES
Readers Protest Times
News: Almost 1,000 in the Jewish community interrupt delivery, citing
Mideast coverage.
� �By ERIC MALNIC, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Nearly 1,000 Los Angeles Times subscribers have ordered suspension of home
delivery for a day or more to protest what they call inaccurate,
pro-Palestinian reporting of the unrest in the Middle East.
The protest reportedly was organized in the local Jewish community and was
timed to correspond with Wednesday's 54th anniversary of Israeli
independence.
Times officials said they could not provide precise figures on the number of
delivery suspensions, but said the orders amount to less than one-tenth of
1% of the paper's total daily circulation of slightly more than 1 million.
They said the newspaper began receiving multiple calls about Middle East
coverage Monday. About 900 calls were received Wednesday, but not all of
them requested suspensions.
Dr. Joe Englanoff, a physician at UCLA Medical Center, said talk about
staging the protest against The Times' Middle East coverage began
circulating through Southern California's Jewish community several weeks
ago.
"Thousands have been contacted, mostly by e-mail," he said. "There's a
feeling in the community that The Times clearly has been one-sided and
biased in its reporting about the Middle East. People in the Jewish
community want to express their anger."
Times Editor John Carroll noted that the newspaper has a large staff of
reporters and photographers chronicling the Middle East conflict.
"Our goal is to provide coverage that is both fair and complete," he said.
"We feel that we serve our readership by covering all aspects and points of
view.
"Some readers may take exception to specific articles, but I am confident
that, over time, careful readers of this newspaper will get a full, balanced
account of these unsettling events," Carroll said.
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