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Opinion: The story behind the stories on the Schwarzenegger baby and his separation from Maria Shriver

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ICYMI, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver have separated after 25 years of marriage.

The story was broken here on LATimes.com.

ICYM the Los Angeles Times follow-up here, they are separated because Schwarzenegger admitted fathering a child a decade ago with their family maid.

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Now Mark Barabak, the news organization’s top political reporter, explains how the story came to be reported by a team, written, verified and published.

In this video below, the veteran Barabak talks with CNN’s Howard Kurtz about the old-fashioned ‘shoe leather’ used in researching the stories and why the news organization chose not to name the maid in its initial coverage.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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