That story of the L.A. Times sitting on a massive sex scandal story? One of the editors denies it, and it’s Matt Welch – a true blog guy. Patterico trusts him, and so do I; his denial seems pretty comprehensive.

UPDATE: Welch writes in:

Just wanted to emphasize — my denial is actually quite limited: I simply haven’t heard anything, so I’m calling the “everyone knows” bit into question. There certainly could be a juicy rumor being investigated upstairs or across the country from me — God, I hope so! — but if so they’ve successfully kept from gossiping about it in a way that would reach my ears. I just figured that if Rosenbaum was going with a single-sourced anonymous “everyone knows” item, it might add overall value to the Distributed Journalism to point out that at least one [guy], in fact, does not know.