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September 23, 2003
Maybe it'll be in the paperback
More lies about liberal media bias. Someone tell Al Franken.
If any Hollywood figure is in the J. Lo category, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since announcing for California governor with his pal Jay Leno, the Terminator has attracted a huge wave of media attention and a torrent of front-page stories (not to mention coveted chats with Oprah Winfrey and Howard Stern).
So what was he doing recently with Fox's Bill O'Reilly? Complaining about the Los Angeles Times and its supposed preference for Gov. Gray Davis and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante: "Have you ever seen how many times they put Davis on the cover and Bustamante on the cover and I'm on page 12 or page 20 or something like that?"
Arnold -- shoved inside the paper? Not so, says Times Editor John Carroll, noting that Reuters had counted 64 front-page references to Davis, 61 for Schwarzenegger and 48 for Bustamante.
What's more, Carroll says Schwarzenegger called him last month to say "he'd been reading the paper closely, that it had been fair and he appreciated it." The call came a day after the Times ran a piece about his father's Nazi past inside the paper but gave Page 1 play to financier Warren Buffett joining Schwarzenegger's team.
Posted by glyphic at September 23, 2003 02:10 AM