Schwarzenegger coverage: Privacy first

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Editor Russ Stanton issued this statement Friday about The Times’ coverage of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s acknowledgment that he fathered a child out of marriage:

The Los Angeles Times has decided not to publish the name of Schwarzenegger’s mistress and her child to protect their privacy. Because we share content electronically with other Tribune Co. newsrooms, a story and picture identifying the mistress appeared briefly on latimes.com on Wednesday morning. They were removed.

In an earlier Readers’ Representative Journal post, Stanton commented on the decision not to publish the names. In addition, the paper’s On the Media columnist, James Rainey, discussed the way The Times and other media have handled the issue.

-- Office of the Readers’ Representative