Patterico busts another LA Times sock puppet: On Commenter Masha, Commenting from . . . You’ll Never Guess! This is getting ridiculous. UPDATE at 4/22/06 8:24:54 am: Also see Cathy Seipp’s piece at NRO about disgraced LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: Blog Buffoonery.
The Los Angeles Times has suspended columnist Michael Hiltzik’s Golden State blog: Golden State: Notice from the Editors. (Here’s why.) Note: they haven’t suspended Hiltzik himself. Just his blog.
Patterico has caught LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik using “sock puppet” identities on blogs, posting under at least two different pseudonyms to attack his detractors and defend the LA Times: Three in One: Michael Hiltzik, Mikekoshi, and Nofanofcablecos. As long-time LGF readers know, if I find people doing that here it’s ...