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News anchor suspended for burying the mayor's lead

Posted by Fired Fred on July 6, 2007 5:03 PM
The mayor of Los Angeles must have used the "half my age plus seven" calculation when picking out a Telemundo reporter for a spicy relationship. Antonio Villaraigosa is 54, Mirthala Salinas is 35.

I can tell the L.A. Times editors have to be dancing on the desks over this story. Check out this money shot quote from His Honor that they printed...
Villaraigosa, who called Salinas a "consummate journalistic professional," said she decided about a year ago that "our friendship had grown to a point where it was necessary to inform her management that she shouldn't cover me. She did that. And they agreed."
Really, Mayor, did you have to use the word "consummate?" He was bragging to everyone with a neat little play on words there.

The stuff has really hit the fan now. His sultry journalistic paramour has been suspended by Telemundo over the relationship. The Times thinks they've been playing "fish taco with chorizo" for 18 months. Oh it gets better too. Much better...
Meanwhile, Telemundo editorial staffers worried they might have said too much about the mayor in the presence of Salinas.

"They're all sitting here wondering, 'What did I say to her about him, not knowing that it could have gone right back to the mayor?' " said a Telemundo source who added that Salinas had earlier told suspicious superiors that she and the mayor were merely friends.

It's now clear that Salinas seems to have the strangest of fetishes — a thing for politicians. She was previously involved with Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez and state Sen. Alex Padilla.
Telemundo can't say Mirthala didn't put her body and soul into her political reporting, now can they?

Image by Robert Durell/L.A. Times
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Olga

Is so sad that our popular mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is divorcing his wife of 20 years.
Mayor Villarriagosa should have divorced first and then have his fun.
Mirthala Salinas should have waited, I believe she is the worse offender because she knew that the mayor was married. If she didn't know that would've been a different story, but how could not have known? in my opinion both are wrong.

Posted on: July 8, 2007 12:47 PM

Joe

Impeach him Clinton! ermmm I meant Villaraigosa.

Posted on: July 11, 2007 9:20 AM

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