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Since casino magnate Sheldon Adelson took over the Las Vegas Review Journal last week, you can’t exactly fault the paper for being hard on itself.
Case in point, LVRJ columnist Jennifer Robison went on a tirade of sorts against the paper’s previous owner (for two weeks back in December?), Michael Schoeder, who assigned reporters to monitor a Clark County District Court Judge, Elizabeth Gonzalez, for no known reason. Further questions were raised as Schoeder’s “story” on the judge was to appear in his Connecticut-based paper.
"Schroeder's note fails to explain anything that people want to know about this mystery article (on Gonzalez)," said Jay Rosen, a media critic and journalism professor at New York University. "What did he think he was doing? Why did he publish it? And did he temporarily forget that Bristol (Conn.) is not in Nevada?"
Not lost in all of this is the fact that Gonzalez’s current case load includes Jacobs v. Sands, a long-running wrongful termination lawsuit filed against Adelson and his company, Las Vegas Sands Corp., by Steven Jacobs, who ran Sands' operations in Macau.
Last week, LVRJ John L. Smith reporter didn't hold back questioning Adelson's takeover of the paper. Smith was once sued by Adelson.
- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com
