FLASHBACK

Chuck Neubauer, Richard T. Cooper and Judy Pasternak, all of the Los Angeles Times, were recently named finalists for the Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize for their series titled "The Senators' Sons" about lobbyist family members of lawmakers. The award is given each year by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy.

You can read the two-part series HERE and HERE. The first part of the series briefly discussed Linda Daschle's lobbying activity, as well as that of Tom Daschle's daughter-in-law. Jeff Gannon broke this story days before the LAT published its series. No award for Jeff, though.

Last summer, when these stories were published in the LAT, the Argus Leader initially balked at following up the story. To its credit, the AL finally published the LAT story on the page A1 of a Sunday edition.

Almost six months later, it was discovered that the AL had doctored the LAT story to make it less damaging to Tom Daschle.

Of course, the AL has taken to doctoring its online edition to reflect an important correction, while to this day failing to publish the correction in any hard copy edition of its paper.