LA TIMES OUTS JILL STEWART ~ LA WEEKLY ~ DANIEL HEIMPEL

[Guest guest]

Ha! Gotta love that poetic justice. Veteran LA Times

reporter, Jim Rainey, wrote an article last week

titled " LAWeekly's aggressive slant erodes quality " .

http://lablips.dailyradar.com/story/la_weekly_s_aggressive_s

lant_erodes_quality_los/

It was about Heimpel's biased opinion pieces of LA

Mayor Villarosa that were thinly veiled as professional journalism.

is a real piece of work who, according to Rainey's article, has a

long

standing reputation for using these tactics. Heimpel

appears to be her MiniMe.

If you are recall, this dynamic duo did a hit piece on my

family and I last summer. We were the victims de jour of these less than

forthright tactics used by Ms. and her prodigy,

MiniMe Heimpel.

As you all know, I advocate for people made ill from

environmental exposures to mold. Through my and others' efforts,

we have effectively exposed a deception in US public health

policy. At our urging, Senator Kennedy requested a

Federal Government Accountability Office audit into the

matter. As a result, we now have less conflicted science

over the issue coming from the Federal government.

For my efforts of being a good and involved citizen,

and Heimpel chose to character assassinate not only

me, but my husband and children- who are not even involved

in advocating over the issue. Through this assassination

they attempted to discount my words and thus discount the

words of all of those for whom I advocate.

No less than seven of the people Heimpel claimed to have

interviewed for the hit piece article, stated in writing to

the LAWeekly that they were grossly misquoted or never even

interviewed at all. Some, who were interviewed via email,

provided documentation of the false quotes attributed to

them. One even blogged of Heimpel's misquotes of him. He

wrote that he was never asked about me by Heimpel or

anyone at LAWeekly. This blogger is not even on the same

side of the issue I am.

http://overlawyered.com/2008/07/la-weekly-the-mold-rush-and-

the-case-of-sharon-kramer-and-bruce-kelman/

Even after being told of all the misquotes, told that I was

getting hang up calls in the middle of the night and told

that I was fearful for the safety of my children from the

hatred inciting, false light writing of Heimpel and

; LAWeekly, and their parent company of New Times,

Village Voice, still refused to retract.

Now, Jill is whining that she has been wronged by

the media. calling Mr. Rainey's truthful writing a " cheap

broadside " .

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oew-

stewart25-2009jun23,0,5123526.story

Personally, I find it now to be even greater insight into 's

character that she would cry foul for someone bringing the

harm from her interpretation of journalism to greater

light. Apparently, can dish it out but she can't

take it. I also find it to be a poor taste joke that MiniMe

Heimpel received an investigative journalist award for this

garbage about the Mayor. This is an insult to the true

journalists that are left out there who try to report

balanced and accurate news.

Mr. Rainey's understanding of Jill 's bizarre

interpretation of the word " journalist " is exactly

correct. From what I can tell, many of these little weeklies

and their linked blogs have become nothing more than a

vast, agenda driven, marketing network of Village

Voiceovers, who could care less about truth in journalism.

Disguised as investigative journalists, the dynamic duo of and

Heimpel are a real danger to society.

Sharon Kramer

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