There is a controversy on social media going on regarding the new ownership of the LA Weekly newspaper. But Gustavo Arellano, a former writer for the OC Weekly and Voice of Orange County, threatened me from participating in the debate on social media by tweeting to me after I made a comment:
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!“But with you popping in, don’t get @RScottMoxley interested!”
R. Scott Moxley describes himself as a person whose “award-winning investigative journalism has touched nerves for two decades.” Moxley’s pieces include exposes, sometimes targeting conservatives, like me. So, what Arellano was conveying to me in his tweet, now deleted, and blocked from his account, is that if I had anything more to say about the LA Weekly newspaper ownership issue, that I could draw a retaliatory negative story from his friend Moxley at the OC Weekly.
Journalism is great when it “touches nerves” and exposes hidden truths. But journalists are quite shameful individuals when they threaten to use their contacts to suppress public participation in debate. Yet it is very clear that Gustavo Arellano intended to bully me into silence, and for this he deserves to be outed for the bully he is, and he owes me, and his profession, and even R. Scott Moxley, an apology.
Here is Arellano’s tweet threatening me:
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GustavoArellano (@GustavoArellano) |
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@JamesVLacy1 @LAWeekly @OCWeekly Yeah, no. But with you popping in, don’t get @RScottMoxley interested! |
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Gustavo Arellano
Gustavo Arrellano was the 1st person to write a hit piece on me, completely unsourced and fact free. He’s a hard leftist Brown Supremacist and generally bad person. This doesn’t surprise me. http://www.ocweekly.com/content/printView/6480214