The Truth Must Be 'Edited'
The Sacramento Bee has muzzled its in-house blogger, Daniel Weintraub, following complaints about one of his missives from Latino political leaders in California, reports Bee Ombudsman Tony Marcano.
In a Sept. 1 item on his blog, Weintraub included some political truths that the Latino leaders feared was a bit too racially inflammatory.
Weintraub wrote that California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante "certainly owed his elevation to the job of assembly speaker to his ethnic background and to the support he received from fellow Latinos. If his name had been Charles Bustmont rather than Cruz Bustamante, he would have finished his legislative career as an anonymous back-bencher."
He also wrote, "It's indisputably true that the Legislature's Latino Caucus advocates policies that are destructive to their own people and to greater California, in the name of ethnic unity."
The Latino Caucus in the state Legislature protested in a letter to Bee Publisher Janis Besler Heaphy, and henceforth Mr. Weintraub will be "edited" for racially insensitive commentary just like everyone else on the paper.
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