At its heart, it is the story of a whistleblower and a newsroom trying to do the right thing against great odds. “Bad City” is part exposé, part primer on investigative journalism, part saga about the abuse of power. Maharaj called assertions that decisions about The Times’ coverage of USC ever tilted in the university’s favor “ridiculous.” “I and the other honorable senior editors who worked with me would never let any person or entity, including USC, dictate any aspect of our coverage,” he said.
“It is a myth, it is an invention, and it is, frankly, pathetic … that five years after the story was published with all this going on in the world, we’re still talking about this.” “This whole storyline - about a corrupt newsroom management at The Times that protected USC and that tried to suppress the Puliafito story - in its broad outlines and in its details is untrue, period,” Duvoisin said. Neither man has read “Bad City.” When told of allegations made in the book, they vociferously denied them. Maharaj remains in Southern California, where he said he is involved in several journalism and literary projects. I just couldn’t believe what I was going through every day.”ĭuvoisin is now editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Express-News. “As cynical as I’ve been for a long time, it stunned me. “The largest, most important media company west of the Potomac and one of Los Angeles’ oldest institutions had an opportunity to do the right thing and lost its way,” Pringle said in an interview. “Bad City” contends that the actions Duvoisin and Maharaj took to stymie the USC investigation went against the most basic tenets of journalism and tarnished the news organization’s credibility at a time of rampant distrust of the media.
Tronc, which owned The Times then, stated publicly that they were terminated as part of a management restructuring and there was no conflict of interest between the two men and USC.īut under their leadership, Pringle wrote, “a balance of power that existed between USC and the Times for generations had been subverted – so that it had become tilted in USC’s favor.” Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin and publisher and Editor-in-Chief Davan Maharaj were fired in 2017.
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