It's been unsettling to watch the massive layoffs at the LA Times and Daily News, but when you read a sanitized story like today's Los Angeles Times California section report on The Donald's effort to save Johnny Carson sidekick Ed McMahon from foreclosure, it's a reminder that newspapers have a fatal habit of leaving many uncomfortable, relevant news facts on the cutting room floor.
Wake up! Readers -- well, the readers who are left -- want actual news. Trump asks "How could this happen?" How could well-liked TV personality McMahon be losing everything in his old age? The answer is in the Weekly cover by Daniel Heimpel several days ago headlined The Mold Rush. McMahon's obsession with "toxic" mold is at the center of his sad life, and, like a strange religion, has enveloped thousands of true believers. Editors and writers at the Times had to perform extensive mental gymnastics to leave that overriding fact out of their latest look at McMahon's weird, ongoing travails.
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Jill,
What is your point regarding Ed McMahon?
First of all, who said he was obsessed with mold? You cannot use Daniel Heimpel as a legitimate source of news. Hundreds of journalists, scientists, and experts have proved his article was yellow journalism and scientifically and journalistically invalid.
Second, Comparing mold to a strange religion demonstrates your lack of knowledge on ongoing research and advances about this important topic in medicine and science.
It also demonstrates, yet again, a strange denialist hatred found in bitter, uneducated individuals somehow trying to avoid or delay the topic of mold in indoor environments.
Good news is you are too late to block research with lies. The general scientific consensus is evidenced by the article in the August 11th, Newsweek.
Mold exposure is undergoing research all over the world, and the consensus is growing among the top scientists and researchers as to inflammatory response, toxigenic response, and disease response to damp buildings.
Take a look at :youtube dot com/watch?v=xMwkoT8b0qg
Ed already lost enough you judgemental ignorant putz. Go make fun of someone with an autistic kid, or pneumonia or diabetes. Go yell at these people about their illness and blame them for being in a weird diabetes religion or autism religion. I dare you.
Posted on August 18, 2008 12:08 PM by RA